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Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia

The Book of Rosy: A Mother’s Story of Separation at the Border by Rosayra Pablo Cruz and Julie Schwietert Collazo

Afterlife by Julia Alvarez

Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America by Maria Hinojosa

Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon through North America’s Stolen Land by Noé Álvarez

Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin

Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor

My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education by Jennine Capó Crucet

Erosion: Essays of Undoing

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

Hermosa by Yesika Salgado

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture edited by Roxane Gay

The Affairs of the Falcóns

The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang

Native Country of the Heart by Cherríe Moraga

Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

Infomocracy by Malka Older

Sabrina & Corina by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli

Cocoa by Kristy Leissle

Severance by Ling Ma

Eating NAFTA by Alyshia Gálvez

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

The Terrible by Yrsa Daley-Ward

Everything’s Trash, but it’s Okay by Phoebe Robinson

Evicted by Matthew Desmond

Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Shame is an Ocean I Swim Across by Mary Lambert

Ancient Futures by Helena Norberg-Hodge

Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera

1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus by Charles C. Mann

Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés

The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs

The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka

An Untamed State by Roxane Gay

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika Sánchez

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra

The Sympathizer by Viet Than Nguyen

Among Strange Victims by Daniel Saldaña Paris

The Circuit by Francisco Jiménez

War Dogs by Rebecca Frankel

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Sapiens by Yuvah Noah Harari

we are never meeting in real life. by Samantha Irby

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Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia is a multigenerational story that traces the ways women learn to resist power structures and endure suffering with a ferocity born of love and lack of choices. In the beginning, there is María Isabel, whose survival requires learning to read in secret and working as the only woman rolling cigars in a factory. In the midst of the first Cuban revolution in the 1860's, María Isabel becomes the matriarch of a long line of courageous women navigating an unjust world.
The Book of Rosy is the story of Rosayra Pavlo Cruz, a mother of four from Guatemala who fled to the U.S. seeking asylum, co-written by Julie Schwietert Collazo the co-founder of Immigrant Families Together. Rosy's story and her fight for a dignified existence brings to life an immigration policy that was ignored for too long and continues to keep innocent refugee children separated from their parents.
After the sudden death of her husband, Antonia would like nothing more than to recede into her solitary cocoon of grief. However, when the universe conspires to place her in the midst of telenovela-esque, high-stakes drama, she discovers that even after death, her loved ones come back to her in unexpected ways. Between the undocumented young pregnant woman who desperately need her help, and her sister who has disappeared during a manic episode, Antonia struggles with questions she feels ill-equipped to deal with on her own. She reluctantly teams up with her neighbors and her three other sisters to simultaneously quell these crises, but she is never quite sure how to prioritize one person's suffering over another's, including her own.
So happy to write this review for Latino Book Review-- Maria Hinojosa is one of my feminist heroes and such an inspiration to the Latinx community 💜 I could not put this book down! Full review at Latinobookreview.com
Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon across North America's Stolen Land *Full version published in Latino Book Review Magazine at Latinobookreview.com*
Full version published in Latin Book Review magazine at Latinobookreview.com
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