Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus Is Alive! by Melissa Lozada-Oliva - ISBN: 9781662601828
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Faith, delusion, and demons collide in this darkly funny, ethereal collection.

Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus Is Alive!

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  • Hardcover

    192 pages

  • Release Date

    7 October 2025

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Summary

From the author of Dreaming of You and Candelaria comes an ethereal and revelatory short story collection about faith, delusion, and the demons that can’t get enough of us.

A beheaded body interrupts a quinceanera. An obsession with her father’s bizarre video game shifts a lonely girl’s reality. A sentient tail sprouts from a hospital worker’s backside, throwing her romantic life into peril. And in the novella “Community Hole,” a recently cancelled musician flees New…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781662601828
ISBN-10:1662601824
Author:Melissa Lozada-Oliva
Publisher:Astra Publishing House
Imprint:Astra House
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:192
Release Date:7 October 2025
Weight:567g
Dimensions:216mm x 140mm
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Critics Review

“Eerie, hilarious, tender and surreal, Melissa Lozada-Oliva makes her mark as a shimmering patron saint of the weird girl lit world.” -GennaRose Nethercott, author of Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart and Thistlefoot“Hilarious and deliriously odd, Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus is Alive! dives giddily into the joys and troubles of being a flawed person. I was mesmerized by each of Lozada-Oliva’s delicious jumps of imagination, landing in a place more marvelous and heart-achingly human than I would ever expect.” -Gerardo Samano Cordova, author of Monstrilio“Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus Is Alive! is beautiful, moving, weird, and complex in all the best ways. With precision and the command of language of an accomplished poet, Lozada-Oliva puts into words feelings and truths I didn’t know how to name, but immediately recognized. A wild ride of a single imagination.” -Ananda Lima, author of Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil“In Melissa Lozada-Oliva’s hands, girlhood is the eerie, seething, unsurvivable thing that women all know it to be. Lozada-Oliva’s protagonists cry, scheme, joke, lie, mourn, humiliate themselves, and scream for attention in settings both familiar and fantastical. It’s a mark of the author’s brilliance that as they do all this, they also charm us, every step of the way.” -Rax King, author of Tacky

About The Author

Melissa Lozada-Oliva

Melissa Lozada-Oliva is a poet, novelist and screenwriter. A child of Guatemalan and Colombian immigrants, she is the author of peluda, Dreaming of You and Candelaria. Melissa’s work has appeared in Vulture, Harper’s Bazaar, BBC Mundo, Audible, The Yale Review, NPR, and more. She lives and teaches in New York City. She only prays on planes.

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