Sisters, Secrets & Family Struggles – Fiction
Esther Chehebar’s Sisters of Fortune: A Novel is the story of three sisters in a Syrian Jewish family: a rebellious – and single – older
Cuban American Authors Traverse Sea & Sky – Fiction & Nonfiction
Three Cuban American authors celebrate the resilient hope of the journeying heart in their newest middle grade novels. In A Raft of Dreams, Jenisbel Acevedo
Teresa Dovalpage
Writer, translator, and college professor TERESA DOVALPAGE is a Cuban transplant firmly rooted in New Mexico. She is the author of three short story collections,
LIVES MARKED BY PROFOUND UNCERTAINTY – MEMOIR
I Will Do Better: A Father’s Memoir of Heartbreak, Parenting, and Love is CHARLES BOCK’s frank, tender memoir of parenting his young daughter while dealing
LATINOS IN AMERICA: A CURRENT PORTRAIT – NONFICTION
MARIE ARANA’s LatinoLand: A Portrait of America’s Largest and Least Understood Minority – a sweeping yet personal overview of the Latino population in America –
ON RECLAIMING “LATINO”
Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino” is HÉCTOR TOBAR’s personal exploration of what it means to be Latino in
DYNASTIC INFLUENCES
JOSEPH SASSOON’s The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire is a saga of the making – and undoing – of
THE WAR IN UKRAINE: A CONVERSATION
ASKOLD MELNYCZUK, novelist, short story writer, and co-editor of From Three Worlds, an anthology of Ukrainian writers, presents a panel on the war in Ukraine
AIDA RODRIGUEZ ON LEGITIMATE KID: A MEMOIR
In her highly anticipated debut, Legitimate Kid: A Memoir, AIDA RODRIGUEZ chronicles her whirlwind life – from being kidnapped (twice!) and enduring homelessness with her
DYSTOPIAS & FALSE PROMISES
In the dystopian Chain-Gang All-Stars: A Novel, NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH offers a clear-eyed look at the American prison system’s unholy alliance of systemic racism, unchecked
THREE AUTHORS ON FRACTURED FAMILIES
ALLEGRA GOODMAN’s Sam: A Novel is the story of a 7-year-old with a nearly absent father and a mother struggling to make ends meet. But
SEEKING HOME – FICTION
RACHEL KHONG’s Real Americans: A Novel spans generations of one family, from early 2000s New York City, where young and broke Lily Chen falls for