8 Top essays books like Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings by Reyna Grande

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Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings

By: Reyna Grande

4.16

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

" "Wide-ranging yet consistently affecting, these pieces offer a crucial and inspired survey of the…

If you liked the essays plot in Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings by Reyna Grande , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. The Grief Keeper

By: Alexandra Villasante

3.39

Format: 414 pages, Hardcover

Putnam has acquired Alex Villasante's The Grief Keeper, about sisters Marisol and Gabriella Morales… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Villasante's The Grief Keeper book and Reyna Grande's Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings

  • contemporary
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2. Creep: Accusations and Confessions

By: Myriam Gurba

4.37

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

A ruthless and razor-sharp essay collection that tackles the pervasive, creeping oppression and tox… read more

Similar categories in Myriam Gurba's Creep: Accusations and Confessions book and Reyna Grande's Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
"Embedded within these systems of family, friendship, and community, these creepy men may appear harmless, their evil obscured by a benign collective presence, a fog of sorts. This softness swaddles a…"

-Myriam Gurba, Creep: Accusations and Confessions

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3. Solito

By: Javier Zamora

4.48

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A young poet tells the story of his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the United States at th… read more

Similar categories in Javier Zamora's Solito book and Reyna Grande's Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings

  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"We nod, and I notice stars beginning to pop behind his head."

-Javier Zamora, Solito

"Puedo sentir El Viaje en las plantas de mis pies. Lo veo en mis sueños."

-Javier Zamora, Solito

"My chest like hummingbirds fighting for the hibiscus in Abuelita's garden."

-Javier Zamora, Solito

"Mom to my left, Dad to my right, a mosquito net like a crown covering all of us."

-Javier Zamora, Solito

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4. 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

Similar categories in Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez's My Side of the River book and Reyna Grande's Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings

  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
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5. You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation

By: Julissa Arce

4.28

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Nationally bestselling author Julissa Arce beautifully interweaves her own experiences with cultura… read more

Similar categories in Julissa Arce's You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation book and Reyna Grande's Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings

  • biography memoir
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"White supremacy is persistent, but so are we."

-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation

"We cannot make ourselves or allow others to make us small so we can fit in the minds and hearts of white people. America might never love us back, so we must love ourselves."

-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation

"I learned the language, at the expense of my Spanish, only to find that in English I didn't exist. I read the American history textbooks in school that erased any trace of the deep Mexican roots in t…"

-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation

"We learn that the United States is the pinnacle of democracy in the world, but how can freedom be made perfect when it was built upon the genocide of Indigenous people, the enslavement of Black peopl…"

-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation

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6. Crying in the Bathroom

By: Erika L. Sánchez

3.99

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, an utterly or… read more

Similar categories in Erika L. Sánchez's Crying in the Bathroom book and Reyna Grande's Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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7. The Undocumented Americans

By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

4.39

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her f… read more

Similar categories in Karla Cornejo Villavicencio's The Undocumented Americans book and Reyna Grande's Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings

  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"I am a one-trick pony, unable to comfort with anything other than grades."

-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans

"I respect the role of God in the lives of people who suffer, but basically only in the lives of people who suffer."

-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans

"I think every immigrant in this country knows that you can eat English and digest it so well that you shit it out, and to some people, you will still not speak English."

-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans

"There are white moms who threw stones at the little girls in Little Rock and there are white moms who wish Andres and Omar and Elias and Greta's mom will be deported too."

-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans

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8. Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

By: Bettina L. Love

4.41

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“I am an eighties baby who grew to hate school. I never fully understood why. Until now. Until Bett… read more

Similar categories in Bettina L. Love's Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal book and Reyna Grande's Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings

  • race
  • nonfiction
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9. Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

By: Kelly Hayes

4.64

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let T… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Hayes's Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care book and Reyna Grande's Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings

  • nonfiction
  • essays
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10. 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

Similar categories in Melissa Rivero's Flores and Miss Paula book and Reyna Grande's Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings

  • contemporary
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11. First Gen: A Memoir

By: Alejandra Campoverdi

4.26

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An unflinching memoir about navigating social mobility as a first gen Latina — offering both a rive… read more

Similar categories in Alejandra Campoverdi's First Gen: A Memoir book and Reyna Grande's Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer

12. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

By: Jonathan Blitzer

4.49

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Blitzer's Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis book and Reyna Grande's Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings

  • race
  • nonfiction
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13. American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures

By: America Ferrera

4.33

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Academy Award–nominated actress and 2023 SeeHer award recipi… read more

Similar categories in America Ferrera's American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures book and Reyna Grande's Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings

  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • anthologies
  • biography memoir
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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14. Promises of Gold

By: José Olivarez

4.39

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love—self, brotherly, romantic, f… read more

Similar categories in José Olivarez's Promises of Gold book and Reyna Grande's Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings

  • poetry
  • race
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
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15. A Thousand Questions

By: Saadia Faruqi

4.20

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Set against the backdrop of Karachi, Pakistan, Saadia Faruqi’s middle grade novel tells the story o… read more

Similar categories in Saadia Faruqi's A Thousand Questions book and Reyna Grande's Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings

  • contemporary
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16. Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora

By: Saraciea J. Fennell

4.27

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Edited by The Bronx Is Reading founder Saraciea Fennell and featuring an all-star cast of Latinx co… read more

Similar categories in Saraciea J. Fennell's Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora book and Reyna Grande's Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings

  • poetry
  • race
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • essays
  • contemporary
Cover of For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color by Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez

17. For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color

By: Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez

4.48

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The founder of Latina Rebels’ “electrifying debut” ( LA Times ) arms women of color with the tools … read more

Similar categories in Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez's For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color book and Reyna Grande's Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings

  • race
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"The white people I met were well-meaning, well-read liberal folks who happened to know all the ins and outs of racism and colonialism, but somehow positioned these problems outside of themselves rath…"

-Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez, For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color

Cover of I'll Never Change My Name: An Immigrant's American Dream from Ukraine to the USA to Dancing with the Stars by Valentin Chmerkovskiy

18. I'll Never Change My Name: An Immigrant's American Dream from Ukraine to the USA to Dancing with the Stars

By: Valentin Chmerkovskiy

3.97

Format: 336 pages, ebook

"Val embodies what it means to live the American dream." — Robin Roberts, Good Morning America V… read more

Similar categories in Valentin Chmerkovskiy's I'll Never Change My Name: An Immigrant's American Dream from Ukraine to the USA to Dancing with the Stars book and Reyna Grande's Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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19. The Family Izquierdo

By: Ruben Degollado

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2022 Longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award A masterful de… read more

Similar categories in Ruben Degollado's The Family Izquierdo book and Reyna Grande's Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings

  • short stories
  • contemporary
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20. The One True Me and You

By: Remi K. England

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

One small fandom convention. One teen beauty pageant. One meet cute waiting to happen. Up and c… read more

Similar categories in Remi K. England's The One True Me and You book and Reyna Grande's Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings

  • contemporary
"When the emotion in my heart makes it into the page, and it makes its way into other people's hearts, I feel more seen than I ever do in face-to-face interactions."

-Remi K. England, The One True Me and You

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21. I Rise

By: Marie Arnold

4.42

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“A love letter to Harlem and hope. I Rise is smart and funny and full of heart.*” Fourteen-year-old… read more

Similar categories in Marie Arnold's I Rise book and Reyna Grande's Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings

  • contemporary
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22. Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings

By: Reyna Grande

4.16

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

" "Wide-ranging yet consistently affecting, these pieces offer a crucial and inspired survey of the… read more

Similar categories in Reyna Grande's Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings book and Reyna Grande's Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings

  • poetry
  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • anthologies
  • biography memoir
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • contemporary
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23. An Appetite for Miracles

By: Laekan Zea Kemp

4.14

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Laekan Zea Kemp’s heart-wrenching novel-in-verse follows two teens who must co… read more

Similar categories in Laekan Zea Kemp's An Appetite for Miracles book and Reyna Grande's Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings

  • poetry
  • contemporary
"...Faith doesn't work without common sense."

-Laekan Zea Kemp, An Appetite for Miracles

"Dear God. I know our relationship is not supposed to be transactional. But, You are the one who invented an eye for an eye, so, maybe I can entice you with a good deal."

-Laekan Zea Kemp, An Appetite for Miracles

"Because there are people in our lives; rare unexpected people who don't just walk beside us through life; they witness our lives too. They hold our memories in their DNA. So that when one body forget…"

-Laekan Zea Kemp, An Appetite for Miracles

Cover of Abused: Surviving Sexual Assault and a Toxic Gymnastics Culture by Rachel Haines

24. Abused: Surviving Sexual Assault and a Toxic Gymnastics Culture

By: Rachel Haines

3.69

Format: 144 pages, ebook

Two-year-old Rachel Haines didn’t know that she would be committing to twenty-one years of hard wor… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Haines's Abused: Surviving Sexual Assault and a Toxic Gymnastics Culture book and Reyna Grande's Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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25. 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

Similar categories in Marcela Fuentes's Malas book and Reyna Grande's Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings

  • contemporary
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26. Little Rot

By: Akwaeke Emezi

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning Akwaeke Emezi, about five friends trying … read more

Similar categories in Akwaeke Emezi's Little Rot book and Reyna Grande's Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings

  • contemporary
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27. All the Things We Don't Talk About

By: Amy Feltman

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A “big-hearted, lively, and expansive portrait of a family” that follows a neurodivergent father, h… read more

Similar categories in Amy Feltman's All the Things We Don't Talk About book and Reyna Grande's Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings

  • contemporary
Cover of Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal

28. Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders

By: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal

4.32

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning poet Vanessa Angélica Villarreal comes a brilliant, singular collection of essay… read more

Similar categories in Vanessa Angélica Villarreal's Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders book and Reyna Grande's Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings

  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
Cover of Colored Television by Danzy Senna

29. Colored Television

By: Danzy Senna

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more

Similar categories in Danzy Senna's Colored Television book and Reyna Grande's Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings

  • race
  • contemporary
Cover of But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures by Sahaj Kaur Kohli

30. But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures

By: Sahaj Kaur Kohli

4.58

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A deeply personal, paradigm-shifting book from therapist, writer, and founder of @browngirltherapy … read more

Similar categories in Sahaj Kaur Kohli's But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures book and Reyna Grande's Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings

  • nonfiction
  • race
  • biography
Cover of Missed Translations: Meeting the Immigrant Parents Who Raised Me by Sopan Deb

31. Missed Translations: Meeting the Immigrant Parents Who Raised Me

By: Sopan Deb

3.96

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A bittersweet and humorous memoir of family—of the silence and ignorance that separate us, and the … read more

Similar categories in Sopan Deb's Missed Translations: Meeting the Immigrant Parents Who Raised Me book and Reyna Grande's Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary

16 must-read contemporary books like Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings by Reyna Grande

Transform Your Habits

The Grief Keeper

Alexandra Villasante

3.39

Transform Your Habits

My Side of the River

Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Flores and Miss Paula

Melissa Rivero

3.34

Transform Your Habits

Promises of Gold

José Olivarez

4.39

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18 Top audiobook books like But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures by Sahaj Kaur Kohli

Transform Your Habits

This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

Lyz Lenz

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Real Americans

Rachel Khong

4.04

Transform Your Habits

The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center

Rhaina Cohen

3.95

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They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us

Prachi Gupta

4.36

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