Camila Núñez's Year of Disasters

Miriam Zoila Pérez

Mar 2025 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Yenni Ann

About this audiobook

Cuban American Camila Núñez has always been afraid of the future. She’s been working hard to keep her anxieties in check, but with so many new experiences―her first queer love, trouble with her dog walking job, her mother’s judgments about her body, learning to drive, her father being too busy with work―there’s just so much to worry about.

So when Camila’s best friend gives her a tarot card reading for her sixteenth birthday, she believes it when the cards predict terrible things to come. As the year unfolds, the cards seem to be spot-on―is her papi having an affair? Will her best friend’s love life ruin their friendship? Are all her relationships doomed to fail?

Whether she’s ready or not, Camila will have to reckon with all the ways her fear about the future is ruining her life and learn to find peace amidst it all.

About the author

Pérez is an award-winning genderqueer Cuban writer and activist. Their work, which ranges from reporting on the intersections of race and health to personal essays about identity, has been published in outlets like the New York Times, The Nation, and The Guardian. Their TED Talk on the impact of racism on health has over a million views, and one of their essays is included in Roxanne Gay’s New York Times bestselling anthology Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture.