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Anjanette Delgado

Anjanette Delgado is the award-winning author of two novels, The Heartbreak Pill and The Clairvoyant of Calle Ocho. Her work has appeared in Kenyon Review (print), Pleiades Mag, the Rumpus, NPR, Vogue, the New York Times’ Modern Love column, and others. She lives in Miami, Florida.

Fiction

July/Aug 2018

Once in a Blue Room

By Anjanette Delgado

Later, people would blame the blue, the color blue, and though they knew a simple color could not be held responsible for something like this, they insisted on describing that […]

Heartbreak Nation

By Anjanette Delgado

Every station had its resident population of forlorn supplicants, and every journey across the city entailed a descent into a Third World of helpless distress. —Jonathan Raban, Hunting Mister Heartbreak: […]