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• América Del Norte

  Medina Mora, Nicolás,

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  Mexican journalist Medina Mora weaves together hundreds of years of Mexican history and culture with the frequently satiric story of young writer and narrator Sebastian Arteaga y Salazar, who reckons with his cultural identity in the wake of the new…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• America Is Not the Heart

  Castillo, Elaine,

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  Three generations of women from one immigrant family trying to reconcile the home they left behind with the life they're building in America.

• The Border Between Us

  Ruiz, Rudy,

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  Ramón López was born along the US–Mexico border but is determined to get out and embrace the American dream. As Ramón grows, his admiration for his entrepreneurial father sours as he watches his dad’s dreams of success wither on the vine.

• The Bullet Swallower

  a Novel

  Gonzalez James, Elizabeth, 1982-

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  A Mexican bandido sets off for Texas to save his family, only to encounter a mysterious figure who has come, finally, to collect a cosmic debt generations in the making.

• Calling for a Blanket Dance

  Hokeah, Oscar, 1975-

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  Follows the life of Ever Geimausaddle, a young Native American, through the multigenerational perspectives of his family as they face policy corruption, threats of job loss, constant resettlement and the pent up rage of centuries of injustice.

• Gordo

  Stories

  Cortez, Jaime,

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  Shedding profound natural light on the inner lives of migrant workers, Jaime Cortez's debut collection ushers in a new era of American literature that gives voice to a marginalized generation of migrant workers in the West.

• How We Named the Stars

  a Novel

  Ordorica, Andrés N. (Andrés Nicolás),

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  In this novel, a first-generation Mexican-American college student explores his heritage and his sexuality. Impossibly in love with his roommate, Daniel De La Luna heads out for a summer in Mexico to learn more about his family.

• L.A. Weather

  Escandón, María Amparo,

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  Follows the Los Angeles-based Alvardo family as they take critical looks at their internal and external relationships while struggling with a fierce local drought, impending evacuations, secrets, deception, betrayal and making some tough decisions.

• Paper Names

  a Novel

  Luo, Susie,

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  What does it mean to be American? Tony is a Chinese-born engineer who now works as a Manhattan doorman. Tammy is Tony's daughter, grappling with the expectations of a first-generation American. And Oliver is a white lawyer with a dark family secret.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pedro Páramo

  Rulfo, Juan,

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  This Mexican novel, first published in 1959, is an surreal exploration of grief. Juan comes to his father's village of Media Luna - a haunted, deserted place - searching for the father whom he never knew. Translated from Spanish by Douglas…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• These Ghosts Are Family

  a Novel

  Card, Maisy,

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  A man on his deathbed reveals that he stole another man’s identity decades earlier, traces the family’s history from colonial Jamaica to present-day Harlem and reconnects with the firstborn daughter he never knew.