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

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

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

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

The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang

Native Country of the Heart by Cherríe Moraga

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

Cocoa by Kristy Leissle

Eating NAFTA by Alyshia Gálvez

Evicted by Matthew Desmond

Ancient Futures by Helena Norberg-Hodge

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

The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs

The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka

War Dogs by Rebecca Frankel

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Sapiens by Yuvah Noah Harari

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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
*Full version published in Latino Book Review magazine at latinobookreview.com*
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