Set amidst the outsider worlds of present-day downtown New York, 1990s Los Angeles, and 1940s Mexico City, Like Son is the not-so-simple story of a father, a son, and the love-blindness shared between them.

Meet Frank Cruz: a post-punk, sardonic thirty-year-old who unwittingly inherits his dead father's legacy. Born a bouncing baby girl named Francisca to parents tangled in a doomed love affair, Frank grows up in both the poorest barrios and poshest hills of Southern California. A defiant loner, Frank leaves home at the age of eighteen for the big city, but is instead sucked back into helping his estranged and blind father navigate an untimely death. On his deathbed, Frank's father gives him a mysterious crumbling photograph of a woman with a stunning gaze: Nahui Olin, a fierce member of the early-twentieth century Mexican avant-garde who once brought tragedy upon the Cruz family.

Punctured to his core by Nahui, Frank takes her portrait and flees to New York City to start anew - this time for real. There he meets eccentric, gorgeous Nathalie. The two fall in love, but after seven years of happy-go-lucky life together, in September 2001 the New York skyline tumbles, and Frank finds himself smack in the middle of his predestinated fate.

"Like Son moves on the wings of a soulful, visceral kind of androgyny. Old men, young men, hot girls - all step forward and sing from teir stuttering hearts. Like Son is one terrific read." - Eileen Myles, author of Cool for You

"Felicia Luna Lemus is a literary alchemist: She combines words that you never before thought could exist in the same sentence The characters in Like Son are truly original creations - it would take a heart of stone not to love them." Vendela Vida, author of Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name

The main character in this novel is a female-to-male transexual. This fact is unpreblematised. Transgender