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Fiction
Putinoika | Giannina Braschi
The study of literary works will never be exhaustive enough. There will always be some superficial first readings and other deeper ones that can rediscover certain secret nooks. This would be the case of
Putinoika
, a formidable book by Giannina Braschi that requires
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11/30/24
My Chicano Heart | Daniel A. Olivas
My Chicano Heart
by Daniel A. Olivas is a captivating collection of stories that explores love in its many forms—romantic, familial, and self-reflective—through the lens of Chicano culture. The collection, part of
The New Oeste Series
, offers a variety of narratives
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10/05/24
Candlelight Bridge | Cara Lopez Lee
In this stirring family saga set primarily in El Paso during the early 20th century, a multicultural family overcomes prejudice and adversity, but still struggles to remain intact.
At the novel's onset, Candelaria Rivera is a young girl and her family is leaving their hometown
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7/17/24
¡Cabrón! | Ena Columbié
We could say the stories by Ena Columbié that make up the collection "Cabrón" (Ediciones Furtivas, 2023) are transgressive, but the word has been used and misused so much that it has lost its punch. Let’s say instead that they are cabrones, like their title, in the
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4/19/24
Chicano Frankenstein | Daniel A. Olivas
Daniel A. Olivas's
Chicano Frankenstein
is a compelling and multifaceted narrative that boldly stitches together elements of political satire, science fiction, and existential exploration. Set in a near-future Pasadena, the novel reanimates Mary Shelley’s iconic creature
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3/23/24
Tus pequeñas huellas | Oswaldo Estrada
What does it mean to be a migrant today, when migration can be considered a continuum that runs through our lives and is no longer represented by phenomena delimited in space and time? How do we survive uncertainty, without shelter, without a user manual?
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11/18/23
Loverbar | Lizbette Ocassio-Russe
After a category 4 hurricane devastates her country, the first requisite of Graci, the focal character who stiches together a series of short stories set in Puerto Rico’s
cuir
community, is to stay put and rebuild. The second is to “know when to ask for help and accept it.”
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5/20/23
Children of Chicago | Cynthia Pelayo
In
Children of Chicago
(2021), acclaimed gothic and horror author Cynthia “Cina” Pelayo creates a new urban legend along the lines of Bloody Mary and the Candyman. Repeat a nursey rhyme in a darkened room and he – the Pied Piper – will appear to fulfill your
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11/18/22
The Other Side of the River | Alda P. Dobbs
The Mexican refugee character that readers met in
Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna
(2021) is back, but this time she is on the other side—the United States’ side—of the border. In
The Other Side of the River
, the second middle-age grade historical novel written by Alda Dobbs,
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9/25/22
Enviado Especial | Hernán Vera Álvarez (Editor)
Es la mirada ajena, perspicaz, crítica y a veces indiscreta, lo que ofrece la antología
Enviado especial
(Suburbano Ediciones, 2022) editada por Hernán Vera Álvarez. ¿Cómo ven a los cubanos estos veinte autores de España y de Latinoamérica? El espejo que son los otros refleja
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7/3/22
Campus | Antonio Díaz Oliva
Campus,
the latest novel by Antonio Díaz Oliva (ADO), is a dark, tragicomic satire of the power dynamics among Latin American academics fighting for a permanent position in Spanish departments at US universities. The novel is inhabited by a wide array of characters
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6/9/22
I'm Not Hungry But I Could Eat | Christopher Gonzalez
I’m Not Hungry But I Could Eat
by Christopher Gonzalez opens with a narrator hungry to fill the void of his early twenties loneliness with a picture—A representation of lost love. Each of Gonzalez’s fifteen stories follows a bisexual Puerto Rican man fueled by deep
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4/1/22
Gordo | Jaime Cortez
In this linked collection that is searing, poignant, and hysterical, Jaime Cortez brilliantly juggles the theme of competing otherness as a young boy in California comes of age queer and brown.
The first few stories are set in a migrant workers camp in rural California
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3/14/22
How to Order the Universe | María José Ferrada
Conjuring images of Addie Loggins and her con man, itinerant, bible salesman father, Moses Pray in the 1973 film
Paper Moon
, Chilean children’s author, Maria Jose Ferrada’s
How to Order the Universe
translated by Elizabeth Bryer delights in the endearing
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1/3/22
L.A. Weather | María Amparo Escandón
“In Los Angeles people are like ducks on a pond. They glide effortlessly on the tranquil surface, but when you go underwater you can see that they’re frantically paddling along.” And so goes L.A. Weather by Maria Amparo Escandon, a story about
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12/9/21
Link | Susana Balán & Claudia Cano
Link and the Shooting Stars
describes the journey of Link, a young horse looking for the place where the shooting stars land as a metaphor for the search for himself, to know who he really is. His dream describes the hero’s learning path taken by the people
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11/16/21
Death Under the Perseids | Teresa Dovalpage
Beyond being a riveting and pleasurable read,
Death Under the Perseids
by Teresa Dovalpage provides an uncommon perspective on present-day Havana, one that is apolitical and unclouded by nostalgia. Nearly thirty, Mercedes, a native-born Habanera now
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11/14/21
Enero es el mes más largo | Keila Vall de la Ville
In this book, the Venezuelan author turns everyday life into a story with characters who live in Caracas, New York, or Madison. And when everything seems normal between a young woman who helps a girl to bury a dead fish, between two teenagers surrounded by
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9/29/21
Of Women and Salt | Gabriela Garcia
Of Women and Salt
by Gabriela Garcia is a multigenerational story that traces the ways women learn to resist power structures and endure suffering with a ferocity born of love and lack of choices. In the beginning, there is María Isabel, a woman whose survival requires
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8/26/21
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed | Mariana Enriquez
Envy, greed, lust, and gluttony. In Argentine writer Mariana Enriquez’s riveting collection of short stories,
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
(translated by Megan McDowell), individuals are tempted by myriad cardinal sins. These macabre stories have some of the hallmarks of
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5/25/21
Mexican Gothic | Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Noemí is a well-to-do debutant in 1950’s Mexico City, living for the thrill of the next party, the next handsome young man to charm, and the occasional change in her university major to spice things up. Her life takes an unexpected turn when her newlywed cousin, Catalina
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3/16/21
Space Invaders | Nona Fernández
Potent, thoughtful, and marvelously written,
Space Invaders
follows a group of friends as they look back on the events leading up to their classmate Estrella González’s sudden disappearance during Augusto Pinochet’s 1973-1990 military dictatorship in Chile.
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1/27/21
Cockfight | María Fernanda Ampuero
Deftly written with spare, exacting prose, Cockfight is a masterful collection of short stories by María Fernanda Ampuero, translated by Frances Riddle. The riveting collection presents searing portraits of family life. The compendium of stories
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11/1/20
Never Look Back | Lilliam Rivera
Acclaimed young adult author Lilliam Rivera has written a riveting novel titled
Never Look Back
, a contemporary Afro-Latinx retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice Greek myth. It is summer in the Bronx. Dominican Pheus, the neighborhood troubadour is a bachata-singing
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9/30/20
Mouthful of Birds | Samanta Schweblin
Argentine author Samanta Schweblin has written a collection of surreal stories in spare prose titled
Mouthful of Birds
translated by Megan McDowell. This potent book long listed for the 2019 Man Booker Prize depicts snapshots of seemingly quotidian life, but with
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9/6/20
Cantoras | Carolina De Robertis
A gripping tale of love and survival,
Cantoras
follows five women as they forge their own paths in the midst of a brutal military dictatorship. Beginning in 1973 and spanning a period of twelve years, the Uruguayan dictatorship was responsible for the imprisonment,
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8/2/20
Hurricane Season | Fernanda Melchor
Fernanda Melchor’s debut English-translated novel is a haunting masterpiece reminding us that there are no winners when it comes to intolerance. In a rural Mexican village marked by misogyny, addiction, machismo, and homophobia, the Witch is a lifeline for the local
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7/6/20
The Last Train to Key West | Chanel Cleeton
The Last Train to Key West
by Chanel Cleeton tells the story of the interrelated lives of three women: Helen Berner, Mirta Perez, and Elizabeth Preston. The chapters alternate between the main female characters and flesh out the plot in much greater detail. World Word I
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6/28/20
Color Me In | Natasha Diaz
Color Me In
is a coming-of-age YA novel about the important role defining one’s identity is in an individual’s journey to come-of-age. It is Nevaeh’s story, one about a high-school aged young woman forced to deal with the effects of polarizing social
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1/4/20
Juliet Takes a Breath | Gabby Rivera
After coming out as lesbian to her religious, Puerto Rican family, Juliet leaves the Bronx for the first time to take on an internship with a celebrity-status, feminist author in Portland. She arrives in this alien city characterized by a subculture of “hippie white” both elated by
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10/25/19
They Could Have Named Her Anything | Stephanie
Jimenez
Working class Queens serves as the backdrop for this bildungswoman about an ambitious young student who makes a few regrettable decisions. Maria Anis Rosario is part Ecuadorian and part Puerto Rican
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8/9/19
Hipster Death Rattle | Richie Narvaez
A rapidly changing Williamsburg serves as the backdrop and catalyst for this whodunit about a slasher that appears to be targeting hipsters in gory machete attacks. Tony "Chino" Moran works as a part-time reporter for the Williamsburg
Sentinel. He loves
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7/31/19
The Affairs of the Falcóns | Melissa Rivero
A cold and unwelcoming New York City sets the stage in this domestic drama about an undocumented Peruvian woman struggling to keep her family and shattered American dream from falling to pieces. Ana, her husband Lucho, and two children are living with
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6/5/19
Tears of the Trufflepig | Fernando A. Flores
The Texas and Mexico border is re-imagined in this creative speculative fiction noir about a future where human and animal lives are even further commodified.
In a small South Texas city, an investigative journalist is researching a story about elite
dinners organized
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5/29/19
Sabrina & Corina | Kali Fajardo-Anstine
The American West and Colorado serve as the backdrop for this engrossing collection of tales about Latinx & native women preserving in the face of despair. The title story, Sabrina & Corina, revolves around a young woman doing
the makeup on the body of a cousin
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4/8/29
Orlando and Other Stories | Norman Antonio Zelaya
A rapidly gentrifying Mission neighborhood is the canvas for these linked stories about a Nica-American special education teacher scraping by in the Bay Area. Tonio grew up in the Mission area
of San Francisco when it was still working class, but now feels like one of the few
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3/9/19
Halsey Street | Naima Coster
A
rapidly changing Brooklyn serves as the backdrop for this complex novel about family and acceptance.
Penelope moves back to New York to be close to her elderly father Ralph, and is shocked at how gentrification has displaced her old neighbors with rich, corporate
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12/21/18
Lost Empress | Sergio de la Pava
New Jersey and Riker's Island set the stage for this story about a scorned heiress who takes on the NFL and also an unlikely art heist. Millionaire Nina Gill starts a renegade football league after a family dispute leaves her fuming at the Dallas Cowboys.
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11/1/18
Natalia Sylvester | Everyone Knows You Go Home
The Rio Grande Valley and two harrowing tales of immigrants' sacrifice serve as the key ingredients in Natalia Sylvester's compelling sophomore novel.
On the day of their wedding, Martin and Isabel are visited by the spirit of Martin's
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6/2/18
Hernan Diaz | In the Distance
The antebellum American West serves as the landscape for Hernan Diaz's story of a Swedish immigrant named "the Hawk" who futilely searches for his lost brother.
From the violent California Gold Rush to the lawless pioneer trail, the Hawk travels Eastward
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5/14/18
Elizabeth Acevedo | Poet X
X
iomara, the protagonist in Elizabeth Acevedo’s debut YA book titled
The Poet X
, is an adolescent navigating her way through the confusions and challenges posed by both her Dominican mother’s strict Catholic expectations and Xiomara’s own inability
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4/12/18
Edgar Smith |
Arrimao
Two men from different walks of life travel to the land of opportunity in search of a new beginning. Each of them, driven by their life's passions, have chosen their journey. Despite their differences, b
oth Roberto and Ricardo share many parallels, including
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1/8/18
Diana
J. Noble |
Angelina Takes Flight
Evangelina lives a sheltered life with her family, including her precious abuelito, in the small town of Mariposa. Rumors spreading around are about how the Villistas are heading towards Norther Mexico, towards their beloved home, bringing with them
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12/16/17
Melanie Márquez Adams |
Mariposas Negras
An enticing set of stories with elements of magical realism commonly associated with Latin American literature. Mariposas negras by Melanie Márquez Adams is a Spanish short story collection that delves in the mystical, macabre and eerie corners of the soul
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12/3/17
Jonathan
Marcantoni |
Kings of 7th Avenue
A story of friendship, murder and uncontrolled passions –
Kings of 7th Avenue
by Jonathan Marcantoni is a novel that takes an unyielding look at some of the challenging social and gender roles within our Latino communities as well as the dreadful misogyny
that is
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6/4/2017
Luis
Panini |
Función de repulsa
Función de repulsa
by Luis Panini is like entering a museum of modern art, where the work in the form of installations, paintings, sculptures, etc. is presented for a pure conceptual effect. In this museum of vignettes, the artist intentionally wants to induce
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3/17/17
Maria de Lourdes Victoria | La casa de los secretos
La casa de los secretos
is a historic fictional novel by María de
Lourdes Victoria which takes place during two crucial time periods in Mexican history, the Mexican-American War and the Mexican Revolution. It is the story of Patricia, a widow who lives in a mansion
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12/11/16
Instructions to Read Cortázar
T
o start reading Cortázar, maybe it would be prudent to avoid Rayuela, a novel that was described by Jose Saramago as being "in constant movement". It is impossible to stop it, as it is vast and to a certain degree, infinite. If we continue Morelli's reading
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10/8/16
Christopher Carmona | The Road to Llorona Park
The Road to Llorona Park
is a culturally rooted collection of short stories by Christopher Carmona which take place in the enchanting frontera of the Río Grande Valley of South Texas; a region that has become one of most electrifying literary scenes in the last
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8/21/16
Alejandro Zambra | Bonsái
Bonsái
is the first novel of the Chilean author Alejandro Zambra. Due to its laconic language and his almost interrupted descriptions, we can not only consider it a short novel, but also a synthesis novel, or maybe a bonsai novel; an intimate short version of a
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7/24/16
Joe Jiménez | Bloodline
Bloodline
is a realistic fiction, young adult novel by Joe Jiménez which tells the
coming of age story of Abram, a vulnerable yet tough seventeen year old "hijo de abuela" boy, who's on a path of discovery with his conflicted self, his first love, and derailed role
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6/26/16
Sabina Berman |
El dios de Darwin
A
clash between religion and science in the making since the findings of the theory of evolution by Charles Darwin.
El dios de Darwin
is an acute fiction thriller that attempts to determine a common ground in our present time, narrated through the voice of a highly
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5/21/16
Luis Alberto Urrea | Into the Beautiful North
A small town in Sinaloa, Mexico is taken over by despicable drug cartel members who decide to feast on whatever they see fit. It's now up to the townspeople to come up with a solution.
Into the Beautiful North
is an epic novel by Luis Alberto Urrea which
tells
the
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5/29/16
Paul Pedroza } The Dead Will Rise and Save Us
The Dead Will Rise and Save Us
is a collection of fifteen fictional stories by Paul Pedroza that take place in and around El Paso, Texas, giving life to the culturally rich and mysterious southern border region.
The characters in the stories share
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4/17/16
Carlos Aguasaco | El viejo y el man
El viejo y el man
is a Spanish realistic fiction novel by Carlos Aguasaco which tells the story of Fidel Castro in his later years. No longer is he the
encarnated symbol of power in Cuba, but a mere nostalgic shadow of what he once was. Forgotten by the media
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3/27/16
En la feria del libro de Miami... | Teresa Dovalpage
What do “Cuentos bifrontes,” binaural metaphysical meditations, sadomasochistic fantasies, and the mysterious disappearance of a luxury ocean liner in the middle of the sea have in common? Teresa Dovalpage’s agile and witty pen juggles them all to remind us of
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9/15/24
Cien cuyes | Gustavo Rodríguez
Cien cuyes
, by Peruvian writer Gustavo Rodríguez, is a tragicomedy set in Lima, where apartments are replacing houses at an increasing rate, causing many to be left in the shadows and depriving a few of a valuable ocean view. For senior citizens, the vista from the
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4/23/24
Cast Away | Kase Johnsun
Beautifully written,
Cast Away
puts a surprising twist on the immigrant’s story. A dual narrative consisting of two coming of age stories (one set in the 1920s and the other in the 90s), the novel explores the meeting point between home and identity.
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3/24/24
Last Seen in Havana | Teresa Dovalpage
While fans of Teresa Dovalpage’s Havana Mystery will be richly rewarded by
Last Seen in Havana
, newcomers to the author’s oeuvre will deeply enjoy this introduction to the series. Similar to Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad novels, the five Havana Mystery feature
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2/11/24
The Holy Days of Gregorio Pasos | Rodrigo R. Montoya
Deeply compelling and impactful,
The Holy Days of Gregorio Pasos
by Rodrigo Restrepo Montoya is a stunning reflection on community, grief, and cultural identity led by the eponymous Gregorio Pasos, a twenty-one-year-old son of Colombian immigrant
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8/6/23
La Quinta Soledad | Silviana Wood
La Quinta Soledad del Valle, the title character of Silviana Wood’s epic novel, lives quietly in the hardscrabble Barrio Anita in Tucson, Arizona. She gets up early each morning to wait for her newspaper to be delivered, earns her keep typing letters and forms for young men
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12/12/22
The Town of Babylon | Alejandro Varela
In this melancholic reflection on loss and acceptance, a young man returns to his hometown to help care for his ailing father. He encounters the same old prejudices of homophobia and xenophobia as before, but also new insight into the passing of his older brother and
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10/24/22
The Inheritance | Rafael Reyes-Ruiz
Rafael Reyes-Ruiz was born in Colombia, received his PhD in the United States, and worked in Japan as well as the United Arab Emirates. This combination pays dividends in his latest novel, The Inheritance. The novel’s international arc blooms into an ethnographically
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8/14/22
Las guerras perdidas | Oswaldo Estrada
In
Las guerras perdidas
the characters always lose and are on the verge of destruction. However, in this hopeless scenario, the plot attempts to redeem them. In that world where nothing matters anymore, everything matters. Oswaldo Estrada approaches them and
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6/22/22
Yo, Beato | Miguel Antonio Chávez
Ecuadorian author Miguel Antonio Chávez returns to the novel genre after
La maniobra de Heimlich
(2010) and
Conejo ciego en Surinam
(2013).
Yo, Beato
can be interpreted as a political satire disguised as a dystopia where humor acts as a hinge for a terrible situation
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4/15/22
Folk Stories from the Hills of Puerto Rico | Rafael Ocasio
In
Folk Stories from the Hills of Puerto Rico / Cuentos folklóricos de las montañas de Puerto Rico
(Rutgers University Press 2021) Rafael Ocasio returns to his Puerto Rican homeland to gather in a single volume much of the island's rich heritage of folklore. For Ocasio,
Folk Stories
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3/1/22
El ángel de la peste | Santiago Vizcaíno
When the outside world has turned into chaos, what happens on the inside, behind closed doors? This is precisely the fictional universe we find in
El Ángel de la Peste
(La Caída, 2021), the most recent work by Ecuadorian writer Santiago Vizcaíno. Very much in the style
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1/22/21
Coatilicue Girl | Gris Muñoz
The perfect blend of humor with a dash of melancholy, Muñoz's bilingual collection of poems and stories sheds light on growing up near the border, strong maternal familial ties, and nascent queer desire.
The book seamlessly skips between poems and prose,
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12/13/21
La trituradora: y otros cuentos | María Cristina González
La Trituradora y otros cuentos
, María Cristina González’s first book, is a marvelous example of the infinite possibilities of the short story. Throughout twenty-four stories, the reader gets to live with a community of voices and points of view that converge in an unpredictable
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12/7/21
IDROVUS | Elssie Cano
Beyond being a riveting and pleasurable read,
Death Under the Perseids
by Teresa Dovalpage provides an uncommon perspective on present-day Havana, one that is apolitical and unclouded by nostalgia. Nearly thirty, Mercedes, a native-born Habanera now living in
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11/16/21
Te quedan lindas las trenzas | Patricia Severín
Te quedan lindas las trenzas
is the latest novel by Argentine writer Patricia Severín, recently published by Pro Latina Press of New York. Set in the sixties, the novel innovates in the genre of childhood memories and recounts the experiences of a girl in three different houses:
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10/5/21
Variations on the Body | María Ospina
Violence seeps into the marrow of Colombian writer Maria Ospina’s captivating collection of short stories
Variations on the Body
translated by Heather Cleary. A type of violence grounded in place and time—1980s-1990s Colombia caught in the throes of
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9/11/21
Rumbos | Gabriel González Núñez
Rumbos
is a collage of narratives that reflect on the fragile border between the supernatural and everyday life. Gabriel González Núñez shares extraordinary and ordinary tales with characters that range from starving vampires to apathetic immigration judges
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7/19/21
Eat the Mouth That Feeds You | Carribean Fragoza
Coeditor of
Boom California
,
UC Press’s
cultural journal, Carribean Fragoza’s
Eat The Mouth That Feeds You
is a masterful debut collection centering themes of power, the body, and ancestral roots in the lives of the mostly Latina/ Chicana protagonists.
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4/29/20
Las voladoras | Mó
nica Ojeda
Drawing from Ecuadorian folklore, oral storytelling traditions, and Inca mythology, Mónica Ojeda delivers a short fiction debut that is as discerning as it is visceral, a hair-raising and deft collection that expands the possibilities of contemporary Latin American
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2/16/21
Fiebre Tropical | Juli Delgado Lopera
Decked in beat-up Converse, black eyeliner, and hand-drawn blue stars—not to mention armed with her favorite Sylvia Plath book—fifteen-year-old Francisca is clever, rebellious, insightful. A recent transplant from Colombia, she is struggling to adjust to her new
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11/23/20
Afterlife | Julia Alvarez
A remarkable new work from one of our most celebrated Dominican-American novelists,
Afterlife
provides a penetrating insight into the life that comes
after
– not for those who leave, but for those who are left behind. A Dominican immigrant who has
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10/10/20
Things We Lost in the Fire | Mariana Enriquez
A chilling, pulse-racing collection that unearths the sinister horrors lurking beneath the everyday. Disappearances, nightmares, and mysteries abound in Mariana Enriquez’s disquieting tales of contemporary Argentina: a student rips out her own fingernails and
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9/11/20
Incurables | Oswaldo Estrada (Ed.)
The human body has been frequently considered a site of literary inscription. The images of a sick body, a disabled body, or a body in pain, convey several understandings about the vulnerability of human existence. In 2666 Roberto Bolaño speaks of “a pain that turns
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8/24/20
Little Eyes | Samanta Schweblin
In Samanta Schweblin’s novel
Little Eyes
, people around the world are delighted by a new technology bringing anonymous online relationships to a new level. Kentukis are small stuffed animals on wheels, like a furry robot pet—except behind their little eyes are
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7/8/20
Clap When You Land | Elizabeth Acevedo
A novel-in-verse that explores the intricacies of love and mourning.
Clap When You Land
tells the story of Camino and Yahaira, two sisters whose fates become intertwined when a tragic accident forces them to discover the truth about their father—and each other.
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6/29/20
Where We Come From | Oscar Cásares
Brownsville is the setting for this gripping story about family, being a good samaritan, and unintended consequences. Nina is a middle-aged woman who lives with her infirm mother and takes care of her when their housekeeper, from the Mexican city of Matamoros
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3/9/20
Tonta | Jaime Hernandez
Jaime Hernandez—one of three brothers who created the now-classic
Love & Rockets
comics of the 80s—centers his most recent project around the character of Tonta in his graphic novel that bears the same name. The story expertly captures the angst of
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12/15/19
Puro Amor | Sandra Cisneros
Houses matter to Sandra Cisneros. She describes a "house with windows so small they like like they're holding their breaths" in her debut
T
he House on Mango Street
, beloved eyes "like little houses" in her novel
Caramelo
,
and she writes of her lifelong quest to find autonomy
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8/22/19
Dominicana | Angie Cruz
Set in Washington Heights, Manhattan in the 1960s, when Malcolm X and John F. Kennedy were assassinated, and protestors fought to end Jim Crow and the Vietnam War, 15-year-old Ana Canción arrives in New York from the Dominican Republic newly
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8/7/19
Dealing
in Dreams | Lilliam Rivera
I
t’s a new world order and the women are in charge. In Lilliam Rivera’s Dealing in Dreams dystopian novel there is reversal in power dynamics where all-female gangs are in charge of protecting order in Mega City. Through battles and bloodshed
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6/13/19
Lifeforce | Annie Rodriguez
Annie Rodriguez’s debut novel
Lifeforce,
a YA novel published by Green Place Books, is set in the backdrop of a hospital, allowing for the humanization of its three most important but somewhat inhuman characters: a witch, a lycan, a vampire. The narrative takes
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6/3/19
With the Fire on High | Elizabeth Acevedo
A love letter to the single mom, good food, and community, Elizabeth Acevedo tells the coming-of-age story of Emoni Santiago in
With the Fire on High
, her follow-up novel to her award-winning debut,
Poet X.
Emoni is a single mom finishing high school
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5/3/19
Relatos y cuentos coloniales de ultratumba
Relatos y cuentos coloniales de ultratumba
is a compilation of nine short horror stories from colonial Mexico. Some of the frightening accounts are extracts from colonial chronicles and others from popular versions. It was printed by Editorial Epoca, S.A. de C.V. in Mexico
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3/16/19
Next Year in Havana | Chanel Cleeton
Next
Year in Havana
is developed on the notion of postmemory
coined
by Marianne Hirsch. Postmemory is the relationship of the second generation to events before their births that are transferred to them as powerful
and
meaningful stories. These constitute memories
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2/5/19
Fight Like a Man | Christine Granados
The border region of El Paso and Juarez sets the stage for this novella about a middle-aged woman experiencing a sexual re-awakening that turns reckless.
Monica is pregnant, but not by her husband. The spark left her marriage years ago; her and her husband Sal live together
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12/18/18
El Rinche | Christopher Carmona
The moon hung low on that unusual April night. It wanted a better look at the incident that would change everything. It was a beautiful night for injustice. For treachery. For a knot in the narrative thread. The skies were filled with so many stars that chased every
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7/30/18
São Paulo Noir | Ed. by Tony Bellotto
A bottle of whisky filled with violence, prostitution, mystery, kidnapping and death.
São Paulo Noir
, is part of the
Akashic
noir, short story anthology, book series that includes over one hundred book titles. Each set in a major city around the globe.
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6/23/18
Juan Villoro | The Wild Book
A wondrous book of magic and adventures.
The Wild Book
by the renown Mexican author, Juan Villoro, is the story of a boy who moves in with his reclusive and awkward uncle, during his summer break, after the separation of his parents.
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5/6/18
Pilo Galindo |
Río Ánimas
Pilo Galindo (Nov. 10, 1957) is a Mexican
scriptwriter and narrator
from in Ciudad Juarez. He has lived in the border city all his life, and has won several national literary awards.
His play
, Río Ánimas,
is a story about love, abandonment and mystical beliefs that
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2/15/18
Daniel Olivas |
The King of Lightning Fixtures
Los Angeles and its residents serve as the muse for Daniel Olivas’ 30 excellently crafted tales of love, lust, anxiety and everything in between. The very first story, Good Things Happen at Tina’s Cafe, sets the tone as fast-paced and not afraid of big jumps in plot.
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1/27/18
Luis Alberto Urrea |
The House of Broken Angels
Once again, Luis Alberto Urrea comes back stronger than ever as he demonstrates his literary prowess through his new, explosive and heartfelt novel,
The House of Broken Angels
. It
is the epic story of an American family. "One that happens to speak Spanish".
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1/16/18
David
Miklos | Debris
Puerto Trinidad is a town left behind, haunted by the memories it hides. Mothers. The young. Those who have escaped. Cycles of life and death, secrets and curiosity.
Somehow bound by consciousness and separated by time and distance, the
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12/27/17
Daniel
Chacón |
The Cholo Tree
They say he has no future. He is a cholo up to no good, with no hopes for a life outside of the streets. Lucky to have survived a near-death experience he can't quite recall, even Victor's own mother refuses to be associated with "one of his kind".
But what they don't
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12/18/17
John
Paul Jaramillo |
Little Mocos
A piercingly dark novel charged with extreme family trauma and poverty.
Little Mocos
by John Paul Jaramillo is the story of two cousins from Southern Colorado, Manito and Bea, who become products of a socially impairing environment that includes alcoholism
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11/20/17
Benjamin Alire Saenz |
The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
Memories are riddles that map identity, but do not necessarily define a person’s character. That is a lesson Salvador and his friends, Samantha and Fito, come to learn in a journey of loss, grief, acceptance, and faith during their senior year at El Paso
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8/12/17
Sergio Pitol |
The Magician of Vienna
The Magician of Vienna
is admirably the final volume of Sergio Pitol's "Trilogy of Memory," following
The Art of Flight
and
The Journey
. In this book, the author recounts, in a an essay format that is part memoir and part fiction, his encounters with literature
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5/14/17
Cristina
Rivera Garza |
The Iliac Crest
The Iliac Crest
, a novel originally published in Spanish as
La cresta de ilión
by the renown Mexican author Cristina Rivera Garza, will debut its English version this Fall 2017. With a skillful translation by Sarah Booker,
The Iliac Crest
, renews its flight in search of new
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8/1/17
Rafael
Reyes Ruiz |
The Ruins
The Ruins
is a cross-cultural novel by Rafael Reyes-Ruiz that explores the relationship between memory and nostalgia in a plot that takes place in several continents. It is the story of Tomás Rodrigues, a professor in Japan, who finds himself haunted by his
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4/13/17
Wendy Ortiz | Bruja
Since the beginning of time we have been fascinated and intrigued by dreams and their meanings. An alternative reality that peeks through the window of our subconscious where anything can happen.
Bruja,
by Wendy Ortiz
,
is a crossover of this parallel
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3/11/17
Elvia Ardalani |
El sótano del
caracol
E
l sótano del caracol
by Elvia Ardalani is the story of three women: Asunción, Evangelina and Luz Maria, moved by love and loss. Women who have learned to carry their heart as a shell to confront adversity. Contrary to what would be the natural response,
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1/1/16
Mary Helen Mourra | The Patagonia Files
A new and explosive take on Latin America's greatest challenges through an international legal thriller that exposes today's tragic global issues, including corporate greed, foreign investment, conflicts with indigenous cultures, climate change and
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12/31/16
Vanessa García | White Light
V
eronica Gonzáles, a struggling Latina artist, is trying to find her place in the constricted world of painting. Moved by her endless determination and her willingness not to become a high school art teacher Veronica pushes herself forward in an attempt to overcome her
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11/21/16
Eligio Coronado | El hombre de la dicha perenne
Finding wisdom and transcending towards illumination is not an easy task in life. The paths are various and distinct. In
El hombre de la dicha perenne,
Eligio Coronado in an impeccable prose with sparkles of camouflaged poetry, shows us one of these paths.
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11/06/16
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