The Flan That Tasted Like 1997

About this book

In contemporary Miami, the sudden discovery of a perfectly preserved flan in the back of a Little Havana bakery freezer binds together a disparate group of five people, plunging them into a shared, time-collapsing mystery. As the bakery’s current owner faces pressure from a massive corporate conglomerate to sell, the group must unearth the truth behind her grandmother’s 1997 disappearance—a quiet act of cultural sabotage tied to falsified health-code violations designed to erase immigrant-owned businesses. As the past violently bleeds into the present through sensory magic, each member of the ensemble must confront their own deeply buried shames, desires, and complicities in the neighborhood's slow erasure, ultimately deciding whether to sanitize their history for a payout or carry their beautifully imperfect culture forward.

Book details

Genres:

Magical Realism, Literary Fiction, Contemporary Fiction

Language:

en

Published:

2026-05-29

Content rating:

R