Cantoras

Under Uruguay's brutal 1970s military regime, five women gather at a hidden coastal cape and build a refuge where desire and survival can quietly coexist. Over the next thirty five years they return in shifting combinations, bringing lovers, nursing losses, and keeping rituals that anchor them when the outside world hardens. Tender and defiant, the novel moves through intimacy, betrayal, and the everyday bravery of choosing each other again and again. Luminous prose uncovers a corner of queer history and honors how love and memory hold communities together even when history tries to erase them.

~ Included for its vivid recovery of suppressed queer histories, its celebration of chosen family, and its compassionate rendering of love as resistance ~