Where We Come From
By: Oscar Cásares
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A stunning and timely novel about a Mexican-American family in Brownsville, Texas, that reluctantly…
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1. Woodcuts of Women
By: Dagoberto Gilb
3.62
Format: 167 pages, Paperback
Dagoberto Gilb is an acknowledged master of the short story, the winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award,… read more
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- fiction
2. Norwood
By: Charles Portis
3.85
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
Out of the American Neon Desert of Roller Dromes, chili parlors, The Grand Ole Opry, and girls who … read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
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"Don't let your mouth write a check that your ass can't cash, son."-Charles Portis, Norwood
"They later moved to a tin-roof house that was situated in a gas field under a spectacular flare that burned all the time. Big copper-green beetles the size of mice came from all over the Southland to…"-Charles Portis, Norwood
3. Night at the Fiestas
By: Kirstin Valdez Quade
4.09
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
With intensity and emotional precision, Kirstin Valdez Quade's unforgettable stories plunge us into… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
4. The Antelope Wife
By: Louise Erdrich
3.50
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
One of America's most celebrated authors offers a powerful story suffused with a Native American se… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- novels
5. Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
By: Sandra Cisneros
4.06
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A collection of stories by Sandra Cisneros, the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievemen… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
6. The Line Becomes A River
By: Francisco Cantú
3.87
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Every day, a ceaseless flow of men, women and children push their way north, in scorched summer hea… read more
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- audiobook
7. The Fortunes
By: Peter Ho Davies
3.85
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
From the author of The Welsh Girlcomes a groundbreaking, provocative new novel. Sly, funny, intelli… read more
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8. In the Country We Love: My Family Divided
By: Michelle Burford , Diane Guerrero
3.95
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The star of Orange is the New Blackand Jane the Virginpresents her personal story of the real pligh… read more
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9. Kingdom Cons
By: Yuri Herrera , Lisa Dillman
3.99
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
"Herrera is Mexico's greatest novelist." --Francisco Goldman "Herrera's novels are like little ligh… read more
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10. Days of Obligation: An Argument With My Mexican Father
By: Richard Rodríguez
3.66
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Rodriguez's acclaimed first book, Hunger of Memory raised a fierce controversy with its views on bi… read more
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"Human unhappiness is evidence of our immortality."-Richard Rodríguez, Days of Obligation: An Argument With My Mexican Father
11. Bodega Dreams
By: Ernesto Quiñonez
2.00
Format: 28 pages, Paperback
"A new and authentic voice of the urban Latino experience." --Esmeralda Santiago, author of When I … read more
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12. Lost Children Archive
By: Valeria Luiselli
3.81
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time NBCC Finalist, an emotionally resonant, fiercely imaginative new novel about a fa… read more
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- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"Mouths open to the sun, they sleep."-Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive
"Ağızlarını güneşe doğru açmış, uyuyorlar."-Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive
"Our mother teach us to speak, and the world teaches us to shut up."-Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive
"Perhaps no one really knows us who does not know the way we laugh."-Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive
13. There There
By: Tommy Orange
3.98
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780525520375. Tommy Orange's wondrous and shattering novel foll… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"Everything is new and doomed."-Tommy Orange, There There
"Being Indian has never been about returning to the land. The land is everywhere or nowhere."-Tommy Orange, There There
"...nothing is original, everything comes from something that came before, which was once nothing. Everything is new and doomed."-Tommy Orange, There There
"We've all been through a lot we don't understand in a world made to either break us or make us so hard we can't break even when it's what we need most to do."-Tommy Orange, There There
14. Dreamers
By: Yuyi Morales
4.43
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
Yuyi Morales tells her own immigration story in this picture-book tribute to the transformative pow… read more
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- family
15. A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens
By: Raul Palma
3.55
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A genre-bending debut with a fiercely political heart, A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens explores the w… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
16. My Side of the River
By: Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez reveals her experience as the U.S. born daughter of immigrants and wh… read more
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- audiobook
- family
- contemporary
17. Everyone Knows You Go Home
By: Natalia Sylvester
4.03
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
An International Latino Book Award winner. The first time Isabel meets her father-in-law, Omar, … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"He recognized his own fear in them, and now that he knows what it looks like he sees it everywhere — in the man who pumps gas across the street, in the teenage girls who stumble down the sidewalk, in…"-Natalia Sylvester, Everyone Knows You Go Home
"there was a time when this home was her domain. Sometimes she felt proud of it, sometimes she felt tied to it, but whether it was a burden or a blessing, it was hers to keep. She’d known better than …"-Natalia Sylvester, Everyone Knows You Go Home
18. Where We Come From
By: Oscar Cásares
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A stunning and timely novel about a Mexican-American family in Brownsville, Texas, that reluctantly… read more
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- audiobook
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- social justice
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- novels
- adult
- social issues
19. América del Norte
By: Nicolás Medina Mora
3.90
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A young man from an elite Mexican family travels back and forth between the United States and Mexic… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
20. Whiskey Tender: A Memoir
By: Deborah Jackson Taffa
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An Oprah Daily "Best New Book" and "Riveting Nonfiction and Memoir You Need to Read" * A New York T… read more
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- audiobook
"My Laguna grandmother, Esther, is the one who taught me that a deep intimacy with a homeland requires three things: sensory experiences of particular geographies, a storied history of the trails, and…"-Deborah Jackson Taffa, Whiskey Tender: A Memoir
21. Dominicana
By: Angie Cruz
4.11
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
Fifteen-year-old Ana Cancion never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with… read more
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- adult fiction
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- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Mamá has lived long enough to learn a man doesn’t know what he thinks until a woman makes him think it."-Angie Cruz, Dominicana
"César picks it up and pulls out a chicken by its neck. Welcome to America, he says. He hands it to me. I look into its glassed-over eyes. . . . I've held plenty of chickens before, plucked, chopped, …"-Angie Cruz, Dominicana
"When Juan gets mad, it's as if my dependence on him fuels the transformation in his body from concern, to anger, to fury. The veins in his neck swell, his eyes bulge, and he yells, You want trouble f…"-Angie Cruz, Dominicana
"Puffer fish inflate into a ball when they feel threatened as a warning to predators. The males work endlessly on designing their territories to attract a mate. Burrowing diligently with their fins, r…"-Angie Cruz, Dominicana
22. The Upcycled Self: A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We Are
By: Tariq Trotter
4.20
Format: 163 pages, Kindle Edition
“Tariq Trotter . . . could be hip-hop’s Dostoyevsky. Like the Russian novelist, Mr. Trotter has ref… read more
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- audiobook
23. Retrospective
By: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
4.37
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
An epic yet intimate novel about a Colombian man caught up in the sweep of global historical and id… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
24. Black Light
By: Kimberly King Parsons
3.79
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
With raw, poetic ferocity, Kimberly King Parsons exposes desire’s darkest hollows—those hidden plac… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"It's me, it's me, it's me."-Kimberly King Parsons, Black Light
"Death is just a countdown to the calm"-Kimberly King Parsons, Black Light
"Every mother rages sometimes--this is called "parenting."-Kimberly King Parsons, Black Light
"I ask her: Wouldn't it be easier to just give death a different name?"-Kimberly King Parsons, Black Light
25. Farewell, Amethystine (Easy Rawlins, #16)
By: Walter Mosley
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Easy Rawlins novels follow the infamous detective Easy Rawlins solving mysteries on the sun-soa… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
26. Carmen and Grace
By: Melissa Coss Aquino
3.90
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An emotionally riveting coming-of-age drama, the story of two cousins lured into the underground dr… read more
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- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
27. Between the Mountain and the Sky: A Mother’s Story of Love, Loss, Healing, and Hope
By: Maggie Doyne
4.47
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Between the Mountain and the Sky shows us the goodness that is possible when a single person--regar… read more
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- adult
- family
- audiobook
28. Blood in the Cut
By: Alejandro Nodarse
3.54
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Iggy Guerra is out of prison, but his homecoming is anything but smooth. His beloved mother is gone… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
29. Catalina
By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
3.65
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more
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- adult fiction
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- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
30. Someone Like Us
By: Dinaw Mengestu
3.66
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
After abandoning his once promising career as a journalist in search of a new life in Paris, Mamush… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"Sometimes I look at you and think that things go right through you. You're like a donut. There's a hole in the middle, where something solid should be"-Dinaw Mengestu, Someone Like Us
31. My Mother Cursed My Name
By: Anamely Salgado Reyes
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Three generations of fiercely strong and stubborn Mexican American women face grief head-on as they… read more
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- literary fiction
- family
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- adult
- audiobook
