This Month’s Read Local SoCal Pick

This July, Read Local SoCal is reading Amarisa’s Cooking Pot: Tales of Life in All Its Wonders, the debut story collection from Los Angeles native Désirée Zamorano. Across fairy-tale retellings and quietly desperate kitchens, Zamorano renders Latine lives in all their messy glory — sliding between the fantastic and the ordinary, and never far from a shared meal. Written in Altadena, it’s SoCal storytelling down to its bones. Read along with us all month.

“How deft, vibrant, and heartfelt these stories are.” — Holly Goddard Jones, author of Antipodes and Girl Trouble

Read Local SoCal is BookSwell’s monthly feature spotlighting Southern California authors. New book every month. See all features →