"Winner of the Don Belton Prize and Assistant Professor of Writing at Ithaca College, Raul Palma’s A HAUNTING IN HIALEAH GARDENS, a genre-bending debut novel that follows a reluctant Santería priest—from the Bolivian silver mines to the manicured lawns of Miami—who is forced to confront his demons when called upon to cleanse evil spirits from the home of his debt collector, exploring questions of inequality, migration, visibility, and the borderlessness of debt, to Pilar Garcia-Brown at Dutton, at auction, by Jane von Mehren at Aevitas Creative Management (NA)."
From Dutton: "A HAUNTING IN HIALEAH GARDENS is an entertaining, genre-bending novel with a fiercely political heart... in conversation with novels that employ magic and horror like Victor LaValle’s The Changeling, that weave humor and elements of satire to provide social commentary like We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin, and with novels that exist in the larger Latin American and diasporic traditions." The novel's release date is still under consideration, likely to publish in fall 2023.