Luis Martinez
Luis Martinez was born in Venezuela and lives in Fort Mill, South Carolina. His writing draws on his experience moving between Venezuela and Miami, and the questions of identity, family, and belonging that follow immigrant communities across cultures.
The Novel
An upmarket literary crime novel about inheritance, identity, and the cost of becoming the man your family expects you to be.
Antonio Lorante is three hours old the first time his father calls him a Lorante—and means it as both a blessing and a warning.
Raised in Caracas between his mother’s devotion and his father’s quiet, absolute authority, Antonio grows up in a family where the truth is understood but rarely spoken. When his father is killed and Venezuela begins collapsing around him, Antonio discovers that the inheritance waiting for him reaches back generations—through blood, through Calabria, and through a code older than the country he is forced to flee.
Across three decades and three countries—Venezuela, Florida, and North Carolina—Antonio builds a new life in the United States, even as the world his father once served pulls him back toward full initiation. As love and fatherhood begin to outweigh everything he was taught to want, he must confront the question at the center of every inherited life:
How much of what made you do you have to become?
Almost Made is a completed debut novel.
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