Wednesday, October 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Skylight Books, Los Angeles
 **From the author of _Dreaming of You_ and _Candelaria_ comes an ethereal and revelatory short story collection about faith, delusion, and the demons that can't get enough of us.** A beheaded body interrupts a quinceañera. An obsession with her father’s bizarre video game shifts a lonely girl’s reality. A sentient tail sprouts from a hospital worker’s backside, throwing her romantic life into peril. And in the novella “Community Hole,” a recently cancelled musician flees New York and finds herself in a haunted punk house in Boston. This collection, at once playful, grisly, and tender, presents a tapestry of women ailing for something to believe in – even if it hurts them. Using body horror, fabulism, and humor, Melissa Lozada-Oliva mines the pain and uncanniness of the modern world. Reveling in the fine line between disgust and desire, _Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus is Alive!_ is for the sinner in us all. **Melissa Lozada-Oliva** is a poet, novelist and screenwriter. A child of Guatemalan and Colombian immigrants, she is the author of _peluda_, _Dreaming of You_ and _Candelaria_. Melissa's work has appeared in _Vulture_, _Harper's Bazaar_, _BBC Mundo_, _Audible_, _The Yale Review_, _NPR_, and more. She lives and teaches in New York City. She only prays on planes.