Seattle Latinx Bookclub - Vampires of el Norte

Schedule

Sat Oct 25 2025 at 12:00 pm to 02:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

TBD | Seattle, WA

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Join us in comunidad as we discuss Vampires of el Norte by Isabel Cañas
About this Event

This month we'll be discussing the novel Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas. Vampires and vaqueros face off on the Texas-Mexico border in this supernatural western from the author of The Hacienda. As always, our number one priority is creating comunidad. So please feel free to attend even if you didn't get a chance to finish the book this month.

Nos vemos pronto!


Where to find the book

You can find a copy of their book on Bookshop.org here

Purchase through Estelita's Library's Bookshop.org storefront, and you'll support Seattle's local Black/Brown-owned justice-focused community bookstore & lending library.

You can also find the book at Seattle Public Library in print, ebook, and audiobook formats.


About the Book

As the daughter of a rancher in 1840s Mexico, Nena knows a thing or two about monsters—her home has long been threatened by tensions with Anglo settlers from the north. But something more sinister lurks near the ranch at night, something that drains men of their blood and leaves them for dead.

Something that once attacked Nena nine years ago.

Believing Nena dead, Néstor has been on the run from his grief ever since, moving from ranch to ranch working as a vaquero. But no amount of drink can dispel the night terrors of sharp teeth; no woman can erase his childhood sweetheart from his mind.

When the United States attacks Mexico in 1846, the two are brought abruptly together on the road to war: Nena as a curandera, a healer striving to prove her worth to her father so that he does not marry her off to a stranger, and Néstor as a member of the auxiliary cavalry of ranchers and vaqueros. But the shock of their reunion—and Nena’s rage at Néstor for seemingly abandoning her long ago—is quickly overshadowed by the appearance of a nightmare made flesh.

And unless Nena and Néstor work through their past and face the future together, neither will survive to see the dawn.


About the Author

Isabel Cañas is a Mexican American speculative fiction writer. After having lived in Mexico, Scotland, Egypt, Turkey, and New York City, among other places, she has settled in the Pacific Northwest. She holds a doctorate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and writes fiction inspired by her research and her heritage.


2025 Meeting Dates & Book Picks

  • , Iris Morales
  • , Saraciea Fennell & Various
  • , Camila Sosa Villada
  • , Cristina Enriquez
  • , Yesika Salgado
  • , Vincent Tirado
  • , Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
  • , Cristina Rivera Garza
  • , Aja Monet
  • , Isabel Cañas
  • , Deborah Miranda
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