Las Madres
By: Esmeralda Santiago
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning, best-selling author of When I Was Puerto Rican, a powerful novel of family,…
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1. The Great Divide
By: Cristina Henríquez
3.70
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
An epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived… read more
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"Ada had always believed that her mother, in rebuilding the house only three miles from where it had once been, had kept her world piteously small, but maybe what mattered, Ada thought as she gazed at…"-Cristina Henríquez, The Great Divide
2. Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems
By: Melania Luisa Marte
4.36
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A rousing, beautifully observed, and tender-hearted debut poetry collection about identity, culture… read more
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"Unclench your fist and roll out the beauty in your fragile palm. In your genes are a paper trail. You will find a map back to yourself. // We may all have the same God but we don't have the same moth…"-Melania Luisa Marte, Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems
"mashing plátanos: coddle them with praying hands remember they were born //hanging// not like fruit but like bodies dragged into boats & shipped like cargo propped crates, bonded limbs groups of 5 or…"-Melania Luisa Marte, Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems
3. Too Soon for Adiós
By: Annette Chavez Macias
4.26
Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition
From author Annette Chavez Macias comes a heartfelt novel about a woman who embarks on an emotional… read more
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4. 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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5. Family Lore
By: Elizabeth Acevedo
3.53
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling, National Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes her first novel for ad… read more
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6. The Cemetery of Untold Stories
By: Julia Alvarez
3.68
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
Literary icon Julia Alvarez returns with an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling itself… read more
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7. Flores and Miss Paula
By: Melissa Rivero
3.34
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A wry, tender novel about a Peruvian immigrant mother and a millennial daughter who have one final … read more
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8. Familia
By: Lauren E. Rico
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
What if your most basic beliefs about your life were suddenly revealed to be a lie? In this compell… read more
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9. Las Madres
By: Esmeralda Santiago
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning, best-selling author of When I Was Puerto Rican, a powerful novel of family,… read more
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10. Anita de Monte Laughs Last
By: Xóchitl González
3.82
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-gener… read more
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"we're all just here trying to get you to see your own light because it's strong enough to guide you."-Xóchitl González, Anita de Monte Laughs Last
"You fall for someone, you get so into them your whole world shrinks, and suddenly barely have a life besides them."-Xóchitl González, Anita de Monte Laughs Last
11. Vanishing Maps
By: Cristina García
3.59
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Dreaming in Cuban a follow-up novel that tracks four generations of th… read more
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12. An American Immigrant
By: Johanna Rojas Vann
4.05
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A Colombian American journalist tries to save her career by taking an assignment somewhere she neve… read more
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"It's never too late to change who you've been so you can grow closer to who you want to be."-Johanna Rojas Vann, An American Immigrant
"You have to be a little more flexible, mija. Life and work are full of challenges, and we have to be able to bend and sway... like the palm trees, you know?"-Johanna Rojas Vann, An American Immigrant
13. The Taste of Sugar
By: Marisel Vera
3.89
Format: 380 pages, Hardcover
Marisel Vera emerges as a major voice of contemporary fiction with a heart- wrenching novel set in … read more
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14. Where There Was Fire
By: John Manuel Arias
3.49
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A lush and lyrical debut novel about a Costa Rican family wrestling with a deadly secret, from risi… read more
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15. Oye
By: Melissa Mogollon
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A coming-of-age comedy. A telenovela-worthy drama. A moving family saga. All in a phone call you wo… read more
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16. Legitimate Kid: A Memoir
By: Aida Rodríguez
3.70
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A poignant and moving memoir-in-essays from stand-up comedian Aida Rodriguez on the power of overco… read more
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17. Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women
By: Sandra Guzmán
4.30
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
Spanning time, styles, and traditions, a dazzling collection of essential works from 140 Latine wri… read more
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18. The Sons of El Rey
By: Alex Espinoza
3.90
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the American Book Award–winning author comes a multi-generational epic spanning 1960s Mexico … read more
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19. Malas
By: Marcela Fuentes
3.96
Format: 375 pages, Hardcover
A story full of passion and revenge, following one family living on the Texas Mexico border and a c… read more
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20. Tropicália
By: Harold Rogers
3.74
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In the heady days before a New Year’s Eve party on the bustling sands of Brazil’s Copacabana Beach,… read more
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21. 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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