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Parted Gods is a novel about the love affair between fraternal twins Antonella and Federico Adamo narrated by her at sunset, after a van runs her over and hurls her high up into the orange sky. Most of it is told as she gains access to her brother's memories in the long instant before she hits the ground again. Antonella is a figurative painter on the rise. Federico is an obscure jazz pianist who, after convincing Antonella to leave her rich German husband and move in with him, is hired to compose the score of a major Japanese anime film. As he comes into his own, Antonella starts doubting her own talent and drinking heavily, like their abusive father did before his pancreas started acting out. The story is set in Berlin with eerie analepses to the twins' childhood in Sicily and the constant refuge provided by their neighbor Tommy Morrell, an old Irish mythologist who, on their thirteenth birthday, recounts the myth of the androgyne to the them: how original humans had two heads, eight limbs, both genders, till Zeus sliced them in half and turned them into the incompetent, incomplete beings we are today. But the twins are lucky: they were born next to their other half. If they stick together, they'll always shine and feel whole. And no one will be able to hurt them. There's also a nice stretch towards the end set in New Orleans.

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Born in Mexico and partly raised in California, Alfredo Félix-Díaz has published four booksof poems, one of which won second prize in Spain's young poets Adonais Award in 2008. In2016, he published the stage play in verse To Steal the Day, set in the trenches of World WarI. He has lived in different European cities since 2013. In 2016, the SINAI Orchestral Theatre staged YUSUF'S, a piece of lyrical theater in English written by Félix-Díaz specially for the ensemble. In 2018, he directed a production of his play To Steal the Day in Berlin's Theater im Delphi.Former professor of 20th Century European Literature at Mexico City'sUniversidad Iberoamericana, Félix-Díaz now works as a screenwriter. He has written or co-written films and TV series for 20th Century Fox, Netflix, Amazon Studios, Televisa and Lionsgate. His ballet libretto SuFrida, written with Tonatiuh Gómez, Principal Dancer of the San Diego Ballet, will be staged in September of 2026 at Mexico City's Auditorio Nacional. His novel Parted Gods will be published by Unsolicited Press in March of 2026. His book of poems As Ghosts in Other Birds will come out, also with Unsolicited Press, in 2027.

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