Living Beyond Borders: Stories About Growing Up Mexican in America
By: Margarita Longoria
4.08
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Twenty stand-alone short stories, essays, poems, and more from celebrated and award-winning authors…
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1. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
By: Erika L. Sánchez
4.57
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents' hou… read more
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- fiction
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
2. Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
By: Cristina Rivera Garza
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, unforgettable memoir about a beloved younger sister and the painful memory of her murde… read more
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"Ahora sí es posible escribir lo inexpresable. Mejor dicho, ahora hay algo inexpresable y, luego entonces ahora es posible escribir."-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
"Éramos apenas unas niñas de dieciocho años, pero ahí íbamos junto con todos los demás, pidiendo lo imposible porque, ¿qué más se puede pedir a esa edad?"-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
"Somos ellas en el pasado, y somos ellas en el futuro, y somos otras a la vez. Somos otras y somos las mismas de siempre. Mujeres en busca de justicia. Mujeres exhaustas, y juntas. Hartas ya, pero con…"-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
"It is in the imperative, inescapable, overwhelming demand that the victim be blamed and that you blame yourself with her. It is in the imperative, inescapable, overwhelming demand to exonerate the mu…"-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
3. Living Beyond Borders: Stories About Growing Up Mexican in America
By: Margarita Longoria
4.08
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Twenty stand-alone short stories, essays, poems, and more from celebrated and award-winning authors… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- anthologies
- young adult
- short stories
- latino
- essays
- fiction
- contemporary
4. 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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- fiction
- contemporary
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
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"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
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
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- essays
7. Chicano Frankenstein
By: Daniel A. Olivas
3.61
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
A modern retelling of the Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley classic that addresses issues of belonging an… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
8. ¡Ay, Mija!: My Bilingual Summer in Mexico
By: Christine Suggs
4.10
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
"An absolutely heartwarming and vibrant story of belonging, family, and the meaning of home. This b… read more
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- young adult
- lgbt
9. Gordo
By: Jaime Cortez
4.25
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The first ever collection of short stories by Jaime Cortez, Gordo is set in a migrant workers camp … read more
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- realistic fiction
- short stories
- lgbt
10. 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
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- short stories
- essays
- anthologies
11. We Are Not From Here
By: Jenny Torres Sanchez
4.48
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
A ripped-from-the-headlines novel of desperation, escape, and survival across the U.S.-Mexico borde… read more
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- realistic fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
"We are to Mexico what Mexico is to the States."-Jenny Torres Sanchez, We Are Not From Here
"Los sueños y los hombres son para las pendejas."-Jenny Torres Sanchez, We Are Not From Here
"You can outrun danger...But you can’t outrun the pain."-Jenny Torres Sanchez, We Are Not From Here
"We are luchadores. We are fighters. We are those who dare to try against impossible odds."-Jenny Torres Sanchez, We Are Not From Here
12. 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
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- poetry
- lgbt
- anthologies
- young adult
- short stories
- essays
- fiction
- contemporary
13. First Love: Essays on Friendship
By: Lilly Dancyger
4.07
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A bold, poignant essay collection that treats women’s friendships as the love stories they truly ar… read more
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- short stories
- essays
- lgbt
14. When We Make It
By: Elisabet Velasquez
4.38
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An unforgettable, torrential, and hopeful debut young adult novel-in-verse that redefines what it … read more
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- poetry
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
15. 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
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- latino
"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
16. Orgullo prieto
By: Tenoch Huerta
4.47
Format: 183 pages, Kindle Edition
México es un país racista que niega serlo. Con argumentos como "No es racismo, sino clasismo", "Ac… read more
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17. The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America
By: Nikesh Shukla
4.25
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An urgent collection of essays by first and second-generation immigrants, exploring what it's like … read more
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- short stories
- essays
- anthologies
18. Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet
By: Laekan Zea Kemp
3.94
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780316460279.A story of first love, familial expect… read more
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- fiction
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
"On Thursdays, they come here for the best palomas in town, thanks to my substitution of Jamaican tangelos and blood limes for the traditional grapefruit. And on Fridays, they come for half-price pork…"-Laekan Zea Kemp, Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet
"I would appreciate it if you'd turn it down." He tries to wrestle out of Pen's grasp. "It's a free country." "I'm actually aware of that," Pen says. "Which means you are free to choose self-preservat…"-Laekan Zea Kemp, Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet
"I list what I had for breakfast. I whisper the ingredients for my signature coconut cake. I take a deep breath, the scents of a thousand shifts at the restaurant tucked into the fabric of the front s…"-Laekan Zea Kemp, Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet
"We've reached that point in the night when we're slinging more drinks than tacos, and the Frankenstein monsters on our menu- which I'd created specifically for the inebriated- are flooding the line. …"-Laekan Zea Kemp, Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet
19. ¡Ándale, Prieta!: A Love Letter to My Family
By: Yasmin Ramirez
4.41
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
When I tell people who don't speak Spanish what prieta means--dark or the dark one--their eyes pop … read more
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- contemporary
20. Chingona: Owning Your Inner Badass for Healing and Justice
By: Alma Zaragoza-Petty
4.10
Format: 195 pages, Hardcover
Creating the world you want to live in takes guts and grace and everything you've got. To heal the … read more
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21. La Reina
By: J.D. Yanez
4.52
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
Growing up in the Chicano culture of the 90s, Raina Medina flees sinister secrets buried in her one… read more
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