Photo of Raul Palma (top) and Nick White (bottom) are on the right side of the graphic. The cover of “A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens” is in the middle of the graphic. Text on the left side of the graphic reads: “Raul Palma in conversation with Nick White October 27th at 6pm”

Prologue Bookshop is proud to present Raul Palma for an in-store event for his new book, A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens. Palma will be in conversation with Nick White to talk about his novel.

This event will take place on October 27th at 6pm in the bookstore. A signing will occur after the reading.

A genre-bending debut with a fiercely political heart, A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens explores the weight of the devil’s bargain, following the lengths one man will go to for the promise of freedom.

Raul Palma is a second-generation Cuban American born and raised in Miami. His short story collection In This World of Ultraviolet Light won the 2021 Don Belton Prize. His writing has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, The Greensboro Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and elsewhere. He teaches fiction at Ithaca College, where he is the associate dean of faculty in Ithaca College’s School of Humanities and Sciences. A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens is his debut novel.

Originally from Mississippi, Nick White is the author of the novel How to Survive a Summer (Blue Rider/Penguin, 2017) and the story collection Sweet and Low. He is an Assistant Professor of English at The Ohio State University's MFA Program in Creative Writing. His short stories, poems, and essays have appeared in a variety of places, including The Kenyon Review, Guernica, Catapult, The Hopkins Review, Indiana Review,The Literary Review, Lit Hub, and elsewhere. He is currently at work on a new novel.