“…a striking debut.”
New York Times Book Review
“Magical Habits is as much a treasure trove as it is a book—full of surprises, glittering insights, lyrical vignettes, personal archives, political history, family lore, and brilliant literary critique. The writing is exquisite… I would turn the page without any sense of where Monica Huerta might take me next, only knowing that I wanted to follow, that I did not want to come out from under this spell.”
— Justin Torres, author of Blackouts, winner of the National Book Award
Magical Habits is a genre-bending memoir that orbits a childhood spent in Chicago’s Mexican restaurants. The book plays with personal essays, criticism, cultural history, fairy tale, and fiction to expand our idea of knowledge. Magical Habits won a Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award and received many rave reviews from writers, critics, and students.