A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home
By: Nicole Chung
4.02
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
From rediscovering an ancestral village in China to experiencing the realities of American life as …
Want to Read $ 11.99"A map is only one story. It is not the most important story. The most important story is the one a people tell about themselves."-Nicole Chung, A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home
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1. Christodora
By: Tim Murphy
3.79
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this vivid and compelling novel, Tim Murphy follows a diverse set of characters whose fates inte… read more
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2. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
By: Gloria E. Anzaldúa , Sonia Saldívar-Hull
4.33
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
Anzaldua, a Chicana native of Texas, explores in prose and poetry the murky, precarious existence o… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"I preferred the world of imagination to the death of sleep"-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
"This land was Mexican once, was Indian always and is. And will be again."-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
"Who is to say that robbing a people of its language is less violent than war?"-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
"Nothing happens in the "real" world unless it first happens in the images in our heads"-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
3. When I Was Puerto Rican
By: Esmeralda Santiago
4.11
Format: 500 pages, Paperback
Esmeralda Santiago's story begins in rural Puerto Rico, where her childhood was full of both tender… read more
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4. Southern Lady Code: Essays
By: Helen Ellis
3.60
Format: 203 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of American Housewife is back with a fiercely funny collection of essays on … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
"I looked so preppy you'd guess my tramp stamp was a monogram"-Helen Ellis, Southern Lady Code: Essays
"There’s nothing nicer than unexpected appreciation. If you’re grateful, get a pen."-Helen Ellis, Southern Lady Code: Essays
"Because it turns out, "If it happens, it happens" is Southern Lady Code for we don't want kids."-Helen Ellis, Southern Lady Code: Essays
"Mama says, " Helen Michelle, a lot of women have trouble saying no and then find themselves in worse situations because they were afraid of being rude. So, if you have trouble saying no, say 'No, tha…"-Helen Ellis, Southern Lady Code: Essays
5. The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
By: Antony Loewenstein
4.44
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal depl… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
6. This Town Sleeps
By: Dennis E. Staples
3.53
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
“Elegant and gritty, angry and funny. Staples’s work is emotional without being sentimental. Dennis… read more
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"Spirits can be bitches like that."-Dennis E. Staples, This Town Sleeps
"We're boys. That's what we're supposed to do."-Dennis E. Staples, This Town Sleeps
"It's better to wake up than fall back asleep in a town with no dreams."-Dennis E. Staples, This Town Sleeps
"Did you know you can just order a trophy from a company and engrave it however you want? I ordered myself a trophy in the exact size, shape, and fake plastic luster as the one state basketball champi…"-Dennis E. Staples, This Town Sleeps
7. Death Is Hard Work
By: Khaled Khalifa
3.69
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A dogged, absurd quest through the nightmare of the Syrian civil war Khaled Khalifa's Death Is H… read more
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"إن أفضل الوسائل لهزم الحرب هي التوقف عن الحديث عنها"-Khaled Khalifa, Death Is Hard Work
"أسوء ما في الحرب تناسل الأحداث الغرائبية ,وتحول القصص المأساوية إلى حدث عادي"-Khaled Khalifa, Death Is Hard Work
"في الحرب مرور جنازة حدث عادي لا يثير اي شئ سوى حسد الأحياء الذين تحولت حياتهم الى إنتظار مؤلم للموت"-Khaled Khalifa, Death Is Hard Work
"اللحظة الأخيرة دوماً عاطفية، غالباً غير مناسبة للتفكير، لا مجال فيها لمحاكمات عقلانية، ويتكثّف فيها الزمن."-Khaled Khalifa, Death Is Hard Work
8. A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community
By: Natalia Molina
4.15
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Natalia Molina unveils the hidden history of the Nayarit, a restaurant in Los Angeles that nourishe… read more
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- nonfiction
9. Behind You Is the Sea
By: Susan Muaddi Darraj
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American communi… read more
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- short stories
10. Ordinary Notes
By: Christina Sharpe
4.55
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Bla… read more
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- race
- memoir
- politics
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
11. Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World
By: Barry Lopez
4.29
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An urgent, deeply moving final work of nonfiction from the National Book Award-winning author of Ar… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
12. Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital
By: Elise Hu
4.10
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
An audacious journalistic exploration of the present and future of beauty through the lens of South… read more
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- nonfiction
13. Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State
By: Samuel Stein
3.94
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
“This superbly succinct and incisive book” on urban planning and real estate argues gentrification … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
14. An Island Princess Starts a Scandal (Las Leonas, #2)
By: Adriana Herrera
3.98
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
An Entertainment Weekly "Best Romance Novels of Spring 2023" Pick! One last summer. For Manu… read more
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15. The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays
By: Elisa Gabbert
4.20
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
"Terror, disaster, memory, selfhood, happiness . . . leave it to a poet to tackle the unthinkable s… read more
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- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
"In the era of fake news - a natural extension of the era of news proper - we don't just look to the media for facts, we look to it for narratives."-Elisa Gabbert, The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays
"Often, when something bad happens, I have a strange, instinctual desire for things to get even worse—I think of a terrible outcome and then wish for it. I recognize the pattern, but I don’t understan…"-Elisa Gabbert, The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays
16. The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood
By: Krys Malcolm Belc
4.13
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Krys Malcolm Belc’s visual memoir-in-essays explores how the experience of gestational parenthood—c… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
17. A Shot in the Dark
By: Victoria Lee
3.97
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
An emotionally powerful romance novel about two people finding love after struggling with addiction… read more
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18. Central Places
By: Delia Cai
3.51
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A young woman's rootless past and uncertain future collide when she brings her white fiancé home to… read more
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19. Days of Distraction
By: Alexandra Chang
3.58
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A wry, tender portrait of a young woman — finally free to decide her own path, but unsure if she kn… read more
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"What greater loneliness and longing is there than living with someone you once knew so well, and who is now hardly around?"-Alexandra Chang, Days of Distraction
"It is the nature of relationships that they are impossible to fully understand from the outside. Their inner workings both from memories and habits and histories made out of exterior world and from t…"-Alexandra Chang, Days of Distraction
"❝It is the nature of relationships that they are impossible to fully understand from the outside. Their inner workings both from memories and habits and histories made out of exterior world and from …"-Alexandra Chang, Days of Distraction
"And from those brief moments I was living with a certainty that I was exactly where I should be, where everything is deeply quiet and deeply alive. I thought about the many aspects in this life that …"-Alexandra Chang, Days of Distraction
20. American Dreamer (Dreamers #1)
By: Adriana Herrera
4.03
Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition
No one ever said big dreams come easyFor Nesto Vasquez, moving his Afro-Caribbean food truck from N… read more
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21. A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home
By: Nicole Chung
4.02
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
From rediscovering an ancestral village in China to experiencing the realities of American life as … read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- politics
- anthologies
- biography memoir
- short stories
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
"A map is only one story. It is not the most important story. The most important story is the one a people tell about themselves."-Nicole Chung, A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home
