Join Tuma's Books, Latinos Urbanos, and Casa Hispanica at Columbia University on Friday, October 23th (6-9pm) for an intimate conversation/book signing with Leopoldo Goût celebrating his newest release, Rooted.
Please purchase your books in advance. Your books will be available for pickup when you arrive at the event. This will guarantee that you get the books you want as there will be very limited copies available for sale onsite.
We have the following titles available by Leopaldo Gout: Rooted, Pinata, and Ghost Radio. Simply add your chosen titles to the cart and choose "pick up" at checkout to avoid unnecessary shipping costs.
You can also choose to have your books shipped if you would like. Choose your preferred shipping method during checkout.
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Thank you so much for supporting our small business/indie bookstore. We look forward to seeing you on October 23rd!
About the Author:
Leopoldo Goût is a multidisciplinary artist, internationally published author, and Emmy-nominated producer. Born in Mexico City and trained at London’s renowned Central Saint Martins School of Art, Gout is known for blending memory, cultural legacy, and speculative visions of the future in his deeply personal and globally resonant works. His critically acclaimed novels include the Genius trilogy, Ghost Radio, Monarca, and Piñata, which was named one of Esquire’s Top 10 Horror Novels of 2023.
About Rooted:
Author of Piñata, Leopoldo Goût's latest horror novel Rooted is "a blood reckoning" (Marlon James) where one woman's return to Mexico City digs away the layers of her forgotten past and the Aztec gods she awakened.
There’s nothing wrong with Aurora.
A successful art lawyer, she has returned to Mexico to celebrate a recent campaign for the repatriation of stolen artifacts—in particular a mysterious statue of an Aztec god, The Flayed One.
But Mexico City isn’t as she remembered. Nothing is. Elements of her past hint at darkness and power, and reality begins to crack and warp the streets.
There’s nothing wrong with Aurora.
As Aurora’s sanity unravels, she must pry apart her family’s secrets and accept the simplest of truths: The Flayed One cannot stay buried.
“It wields all the destructive fury of a flayed god determined to avenge centuries’ worth of colonial devastation and greed..”–Cynthia Gómez, Ignyte-nominated author of Muñeca
About Piñata:
A Head Full of Ghosts meets Mexican Gothic in this terrifying possession tale by author and artist Leopoldo Goût.
It was supposed to be the perfect summer.
Carmen Sanchez is back in Mexico, supervising the renovation of an ancient abbey. Her daughters Izel and Luna, too young to be left alone in New York, join her in what Carmen hopes is a chance for them to connect with their roots.
Then, an accident at the worksite unearths a stash of rare, centuries-old artifacts. The disaster costs Carmen her job, cutting the family trip short.
But something malevolent and unexplainable follows them home to New York, stalking the Sanchez family and heralding a coming catastrophe. And it may already be too late to escape what’s been awakened…
About Ghost Radio:
In this chilling first novel by filmmaker, composer, and graphic novelist Leopoldo Gout, a ghost story call-in program opens a doorway into the paranormal.
From the cramped bowels of a dimly lit radio station, Ghost Radio is beamed onto the airwaves. More than a call-in show to tell scary stories about vampires and poltergeists, Ghost Radio is a sanctuary for those sleepless denizens of the night, lost halfway between this world and the next.
Joaquin, the hip, melancholy host, sits deep in a fog of cigarette smoke, fielding calls from believers and detractors alike. He is joined in the booth by his darkly beautiful girlfriend, Alondra, and his engineer, Watts. Soon what began as an underground cult sensation is primed to break out to mainstream audiences. When a huge radio conglomerate offers to syndicate the show and Ghost Radio becomes a national hit with an expanding legion of hardcore fans, neither Joaquin, Alondra, nor Watts is remotely prepared for what is about to happen.
When Joaquin notices a curious and troubling phenomenon, he is inexplicably drawn further and further into the terrifying stories he solicits on the radio. As he slowly loses control over his reality and finds himself unable to distinguish between the real world and the world populated by the nightmares on Ghost Radio, he’s forced to confront his past and his own mortality in order to repair the crumbling wall between the living and the dead.
