Dreaming in Cuban
By: Cristina García
3.68
Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition
Here is the dreamy and bittersweet story of a family divided by politics and geography by the Cuban…
Want to Read $ 14.99"In Cuba, everything seemed temporal, distorted by the sun."-Cristina García, Dreaming in Cuban
"We speak in Spanish when we make love. English seems an impossible language for intimacy."-Cristina García, Dreaming in Cuban
"I still love you, Gustavo, but it's a habitual love, a wound in the knee that predicts rain."-Cristina García, Dreaming in Cuban
"Frustrated, El Líder went home, rested his pitching arm, and started a revolution in the mountains."-Cristina García, Dreaming in Cuban
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1. Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood
By: Judith Ortiz Cofer
3.78
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
A well-known author's memoir also includes a taste of her poetry. read more
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2. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
By: Junot Díaz
3.89
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghet… read more
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"You can't regret the life you didn't lead."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
"Like they say: los que menos corren, vuelan."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
"It's never the changes we want that change everything."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
"I might have no one in the world, but at least I’m free."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
3. Dangling Man
By: Salman Rushdie , Saul Bellow
3.51
Format: 191 pages, Paperback
Take a man waiting - waiting between the two worlds of civilian life and the army, suspended betwee… read more
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4. Caramelo
By: Sandra Cisneros
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Every year, Ceyala "Lala" Reyes' family--aunts, uncles, mothers, fathers, and Lala's six older brot… read more
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5. The Squatter and the Don
By: Rosaura Sánchez , Beatrice Pita , María Amparo Ruiz de Burton
4.01
Format: 511 pages,
The Squatter and the Don, originally published in San Francisco in 1885, is the first fictional nar… read more
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6. 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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"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
7. The Kingdom of Little Wounds
By: Susann Cokal
3.83
Format: None pages, Hardcover
On the eve of Princess Sophia's wedding, the Scandinavian city of Skyggehavn prepares to fete the o… read more
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8. The Woman Warrior
By: Maxine Hong Kingston
3.52
Format: 257 pages,
A Chinese American woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories and events of her California ch… read more
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9. The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
By: Oscar Hijuelos
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Format: 640 pages, Paperback
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10. 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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12. Down These Mean Streets
By: Piri Thomas
3.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
Memoir, coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem by Puerto Rican. Dark-skinned morenito had f… read more
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13. So Far from God
By: Ana Castillo
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Sofia and her fated daughters, Fe, Esperanza, Caridad, and la Loca, endure hardship and enjoy love … read more
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14. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
By: Julia Alvarez
3.63
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
Uprooted from their family home in the Dominican Republic, the four Garcia sisters - Carla, Sandra,… read more
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15. The Farming of Bones
By: Edwidge Danticat
3.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Farming of Bonesbegins in 1937 in a village on the Dominican side of the river that separates t… read more
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16. ... y no se lo tragó la tierra ... and the Earth Did Not Devour Him
By: None , Tomás Rivera
3.94
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Tomas Rivera's original Spanish-language novel plus a new translation into English by Evangelina Vi… read more
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"I recall that one time he told the people to read the poems out loud because the spoken word was the seed of love in the darkness."-None, ... y no se lo tragó la tierra ... and the Earth Did Not Devour Him
17. The Color of Earth (Color Trilogy, #1)
By: Kim Dong Hwa , None
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
First love is never easy. Ehwa grows up helping her widowed mother run the local tavern, watching a… read more
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18. Ceremony
By: Leslie Marmon Silko
3.82
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19. Dreaming in Cuban
By: Cristina García
3.68
Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition
Here is the dreamy and bittersweet story of a family divided by politics and geography by the Cuban… read more
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- literature
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- contemporary
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"In Cuba, everything seemed temporal, distorted by the sun."-Cristina García, Dreaming in Cuban
"We speak in Spanish when we make love. English seems an impossible language for intimacy."-Cristina García, Dreaming in Cuban
"I still love you, Gustavo, but it's a habitual love, a wound in the knee that predicts rain."-Cristina García, Dreaming in Cuban
"Frustrated, El Líder went home, rested his pitching arm, and started a revolution in the mountains."-Cristina García, Dreaming in Cuban
20. In the Time of the Butterflies
By: Julia Alvarez
4.15
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
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21. The Memory of Silence
By: Uva de Aragón
4.30
Format: 558 pages, Paperback
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