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PARTED GODS

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PARTED GODS opens in the suspended breath between life and impact, a van, a sunset, a body lifted into the air, and from that instant unfolds a story that refuses to sit still. Antonella Adamo, a celebrated painter on the edge of collapse, finds herself slipping into the memories of her twin brother Federico, a jazz pianist finally stepping into the light. Together they move through Berlin’s restless art world, the myth stained shores of Sicily, and a final reckoning in New Orleans where love, art, and fate collide.

What begins as a narrative of twins becomes something stranger and more mythic. Parted Gods asks what it means to be split from the person who completes you and whether art can repair the fracture or only deepen it.

Félix-Díaz brings a cinematic sensibility shaped by his work in theater, poetry, and screenwriting. The result is a novel that moves like music, lyrical, urgent, and deeply alive. Parted Gods feels as expansive as myth and as intimate as memory.

PARTED GODS opens in the suspended breath between life and impact, a van, a sunset, a body lifted into the air, and from that instant unfolds a story that refuses to sit still. Antonella Adamo, a celebrated painter on the edge of collapse, finds herself slipping into the memories of her twin brother Federico, a jazz pianist finally stepping into the light. Together they move through Berlin’s restless art world, the myth stained shores of Sicily, and a final reckoning in New Orleans where love, art, and fate collide.

What begins as a narrative of twins becomes something stranger and more mythic. Parted Gods asks what it means to be split from the person who completes you and whether art can repair the fracture or only deepen it.

Félix-Díaz brings a cinematic sensibility shaped by his work in theater, poetry, and screenwriting. The result is a novel that moves like music, lyrical, urgent, and deeply alive. Parted Gods feels as expansive as myth and as intimate as memory.

Praise for PARTED GODS

“Are we beings derived from a single body? Can classical myths be reincorporated into the contemporary world? Alfredo Félix-Díaz has crafted a one of a kind novel, full of singular and unexpected turns. The power of Hermes resurfaces in Parted Gods, while the reader grapples with the unavoidable reach of our words.”

Daniela Tarazona, author of The Animal on the Rock and winner of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 2022 prize for Divided Island.

 

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About ALFREDO FÉLIX-DÍAZ

Born in Mexico and raised between there and California, Alfredo Félix-Díaz is the author of four poetry collections, including the Adonais Award–winning [title if you want to include it] (2nd Prize, 2008). His verse play To Steal the Day, set in the trenches of World War I, was first published in 2016. Since 2013, he has lived in several European cities, where his work in theater has continued to expand: the SINAI Orchestral Theatre premiered his English-language lyrical drama YUSUF’S in 2016, and he directed a Berlin production of To Steal the Day at Theater im Delphi in 2018.

A former professor of 20th-century European literature at Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, Félix-Díaz now works primarily as a screenwriter. He has written or co-written films and television series for 20th Century Fox, Netflix, Amazon Studios, Televisa, and Lionsgate.

His ballet libretto SuFrida, created with Tonatiuh Gómez (Principal Dancer, San Diego Ballet), premieres in September 2026 at Mexico City’s Auditorio Nacional. His novel Parted Gods will be published by Unsolicited Press in March 2026, followed by his poetry collection As Ghosts in Other Birds in 2027.

 

  • Genre: Fiction

    ISBN: 978-1-963115-90-1

    Publication Date: March 24, 2026