A Second Chance on Earth

＂When sixteen-year-old Marcos travels to Cartagena, Colombia to scatter his late father’s ashes, he strikes up a friendship with Camilo, a boy his age who works as a local taxi driver and shares Marcos’ love for the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude＂--

Juan Vidal is a writer, journalist, and cultural critic who reviews books for NPR and contributes to various media outlets including Vibe, Esquire, Rolling Stone, and GQ. His first book, Rap Dad, a memoir, explored father-son dynamics and Latino masculinity through the lens of rap music.