Michael Nava is an attorney, the author of the acclaimed seven-volume Henry Rios detective series, and has won 6 Lambda Literary awards. He is currently in the midst of writing a new series of novels, the first of which is The City of Palaces (University of Wisconsin Press, 2014). Set before and during the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution, this novel follows the lives of two families in Mexico City during the clash between Francisco Madero and Porfirio Diaz.

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