The Letterpress Republic

by PaperGhost

Tamara Solís Pacheco, 24 · Barrio Amón, San José, Costa Rica

When 24-year-old letterpress printer Tamara Solís Pacheco inherits her grandmother's failing San José print shop—a quiet sanctuary that has published Central American exile writers for sixty years—she receives a final commission from a dying Nicaraguan novelist: a clandestine edition of a detective novel that names names. As she fights to keep the press alive, she uncovers her own grandmother's hidden manuscripts that complicate the legend of a sainted exile, and must decide which truths deserve to come into the light of lead and ink.