Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, we'll be spotlighting four up-and-coming Hispanic and Latinx authors on the blog each week for the month. We'll also be sharing guest posts from the likes of Ernesto Quiñonez and Octavio Solis. Stay tuned!

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Novels To Read

Valerian

Fiction And Nonfiction

Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli

Told through several compelling voices, blending texts, sounds, and images, Lost Children Archive is an astonishing feat of literary virtuosity. It is a richly engaging story of how we document our experiences, and how we remember the things that matter to us the most. With urgency and empathy, it takes us deep into the lives of one remarkable family as it probes the nature of justice and equality today.

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Hispanic Heritage Month

Heritage Month

The Infernal Devices

Blood of the Dawn by Claudia Salazar Jiménez and Elizabeth Bryer

Blood of the Dawn follows three women whose lives intertwine and are ripped apart during what's known as "the time of fear" in Peruvian history when the Shining Path militant insurgency was at its peak. The novel rewrites the conflict through the voice of women, activating memory through a mixture of politics, desire, and pain in a lucid and brutal prose.

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The Lucky Ones by Julianne Pachico

A prismatic tale of a group of characters who emerge and recede throughout the novel and touch one another's lives in ways even they cannot comprehend, The Lucky Ones captures the intensity of life in Colombia as paramilitaries, guerrillas, and drug traffickers tear the country apart. Combining vivid descriptions of life under siege with a hallucinatory feel that befits its violent world, The Lucky Ones introduces a truly original and exciting new voice in fiction.

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Austerity

Guayaquil

Books To Read In October

The Revolutionaries Try Again by Mauro Javier Cardenas

Extravagant, absurd, and self-aware, The Revolutionaries Try Again plays out against the lost decade of Ecuador’s austerity and the stymied idealism of three childhood friends — an expat, a bureaucrat, and a playwright — who are as sure about the evils of dictatorship as they are unsure of everything else, including each other.

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Space Invaders by Nona Fernández

One of the leading Latin American writers of her generation, Nona Fernández effortlessly builds a choral and constantly shifting image of young life in the waning years of the dictatorship. In her short but intricately layered novel, she summons the collective memory of a generation, rescuing felt truth from the oblivion of official history.

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Santiago

Home Switch

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Ways of Going Home by Alejandro Zambra

Ways of Going Home switches between author and character, past and present, reflecting with melancholy and rage on the history of a nation and on a generation born too late — the generation which, as the author-narrator puts it, learned to read and write while their parents became accomplices or victims. It is the most personal novel to date from Zambra, the most important Chilean author since Roberto Bolaño.

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The Remainder by Alia Trabucco Zerán

Felipe and Iquela, two young friends in modern day Santiago, live in the legacy of Chile's dictatorship. Felipe prowls the streets counting dead bodies real and imagined, aspiring to a perfect number that might offer closure. Iquela and Paloma, search for a way to reconcile their fragile lives with their parents' militant past. The body of Paloma's mother gets lost in transit, sending the three on a journeys they confront the pain that stretches across generations.

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Adam Silvera

Not Book

All The Bright Places

Ya Novels

Secrets Of The Universe

Ya Books

Books Young Adult

More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera

In the months after his father’s suicide, it’s been tough for 16-year-old Aaron Soto to find happiness again – but he’s still gunning for it. With the support of his girlfriend Genevieve and his overworked mom, he’s slowly remembering what that might feel like. But grief and the smile-shaped scar on his wrist prevent him from forgetting completely.

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Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir by Cherríe Moraga

Poetically wrought and filled with insight into intergenerational trauma, Native Country of the Heart is a reckoning with white American history and a piercing love letter from a fearless daughter to the mother she will never lose.

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Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis

A genre-defining novel and De Robertis's masterpiece, Cantoras is a breathtaking portrait of queer love, community, forgotten history, and the strength of the human spirit. At once timeless and groundbreaking, Cantoras is a tale about the fire in all our souls and those who make it burn.

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New York Times Magazine

University Of Pittsburgh

Refuse by Julian Randall

Set against the backdrop of the Obama presidency, Julian Randall's Refuse documents a young biracial man's journey through the mythos of Blackness, Latinidad, family, sexuality and a hostile American landscape.

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We the Animals by Justin Torres

Written in magical language with unforgettable images, We the Animals is a stunning exploration of the viscerally charged landscape of growing up, how deeply we are formed by our earliest bonds, and how we are ultimately propelled at escape velocity toward our futures.

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Paris Is Burning

Buch Design

House Of Beauty

Beautiful Book Covers

Up Book

Penguin Books

Beauty Review

The House of Impossible Beauties by Joseph Cassara

Told in a voice that brims with wit, rage, tenderness, and fierce yearning, The House of Impossible Beauties is a tragic story of love, family, and the dynamism of the human spirit.

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Love And Redemption

Spanish Harlem

Teaching Creative Writing

Contemporary Romances

Taína by Ernesto Quiñonez

When Julio, a teenager living in Spanish Harlem, hears that Taína, a pregnant fifteen-year-old from his high school claims to be a virgin, he decides to believe her. Julio has a history of strange visions and his blind and unrequited love for Taína will unleash a whirlpool of emotions that will bring him to question his hard-working Puerto Rican mother and his communist Ecuadorian father, his beliefs and even the building blocks of modern science.

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