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Brother Bront

by Fernando A. Flores

A border town’s fight for books and survival

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Awards & Recognition

  • Award recognition

    2026 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction longlist

    Longlisted for the 2026 award.

  • Editorial selection

    Kirkus' Best of Fiction 2025

    Included in Kirkus' Best of Fiction 2025.

  • Critical praise

    Praise from Mark Leyner in The New York Times Book Review

    Mark Leyner praises Flores' style as having an exhilarating punk, D.I.Y. aplomb.

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A border town’s fight for books and survival

Set in 2038 in Three Rivers, Texas, the novel imagines a town reshaped by authoritarian rule and industrial exploitation. Reading has been outlawed, many mothers are forced into indentured labor at a cannery, and its pollution hangs over the community. Against that backdrop, best friends Proserpina and Neftal fight to save both their town and literature. The supplied description frames the book as a near-future adventure built around the links between cultural freedom, political power, and environmental harm.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in dystopian near-future fiction and border-town settings.
  • Readers drawn to stories centered on friendship and resistance to authoritarian control.
  • Readers interested in fiction about censorship, labor exploitation, and environmental damage.

Themes

Censorship and literatureAuthoritarian powerLabor exploitationEnvironmental harmFriendship and resistance

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Book overview

Longlisted for the 2026 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

One of Kirkus' Best of Fiction 2025.Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2025 by the Los Angeles Times, Town & Country, and Alta.

"Flores's style has an exhilarating punk, D.I.Y. aplomb; it's as if he feels he's inventing literature for the first time." --Mark Leyner, The New York Times Book Review

"Flores's fiction possesses the aspect of a dream." --David L. Ulin, The Atlantic

"This crazy, cakey world-making of Fernando A. Flores is all of literature: wide, plaintive, melancholy, and full of feminist fellow joyousness and ways . . . Hated this world ending. I want more." --Eileen Myles

Two women fight to save their dystopian border town--and literature--in this gonzo near-future adventure.

The year is 2038, and the formerly bustling town of Three Rivers, Texas, is a surreal wasteland. Under the authoritarian thumb of its tech industrialist mayor, Pablo Henry Crick, the town has outlawed reading and forced most of its mothers to work as indentured laborers at the Big Tex Fish Cannery, which poisons the atmosphere and lines Crick's pockets.

Scraping by in this godforsaken landscape are best friends Proserpina and Neftal

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