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La Común
Couriers, dockworkers, nurses, and fighters carry these novels across the Americas and the Pacific, through occupations, uprisings, and covert wars. Their struggles give rise to La Común, a network built on people willing to help one another across borders.
About the author
Tristin Hassell teaches philosophy in California’s Central Valley and writes fiction about detectives, families, workers, and organizers. The Lula Hayes Mysteries, La Común and Quarter-Turn City are his series.
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Nicaragua, 1927. Rosa learns that military commanders are using relief convoys to direct violence into the countryside. She brings frightened couriers and unreliable radio operators together before the next column moves. Every delay leaves another village alone.

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Wartime Hawaiʻi. Military officials use clearance files to control work at the docks and punish families at home. Dockworkers and Native Hawaiian organizers try to protect their families while deciding how much to trust the outsiders offering help.

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Puerto Rico, 1950. Police turn speeches and employment cards into evidence. Printers and drivers carry people and testimony into the mountains while families argue over who should leave, who should stay, and whether the next delivery will save anyone or expose them.