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• Afterlife

  Alvarez, Julia

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  Antonia, retired professor in Vermont, reflects on her own immigrant experiences and the unexpected loss of her husband when Estela, a pregnant, undocumented teenager, enters her life.

• Sea Monsters

  a Novel

  Aridjis, Chloe

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  In Mexico City in 1988, 17-year-old Luisa runs away with a troupe of Ukrainian dwarves from a Russian circus in this moody, surreal novel fueled by the 80s-era music of Depeche Mode, Joy Division, and The Cure.

• Both Sides

  Stories From the Border

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  This anthology of fifteen short stories, edited by author Gabino Iglesias, delves beyond the headlines with voices that bear witness and bring dimensionality to life and death on the border.

• Where We Come From

  Cásares, Oscar, 1964-

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  12-year-old Orly leaves Houston after his mother’s death to spend time with his godmother Nina in a small border town. Orly discovers that Nina is housing undocumented immigrants and forms a bond with another boy his age in this emotional,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The House of Impossible Beauties

  Cassara, Joseph

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  Inspired by the cult queer documentary “Paris is Burning” and the infamous House of Xtravaganza, this debut highlights the struggles and joys of Black and brown queer and trans lives in the scene.

• When We Left Cuba

  Cleeton, Chanel

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  A Reese Witherspoon Book Club selection, Beatriz Perez may now be living in 1960s Florida, but her heart remains in Cuba. Burning with the desire to destroy Fidel Castro, Beatriz enlists as a spy for the CIA in the hopes of ending her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dominicana

  Cruz, Angie

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  Based on the author’s mother’s life, 15-year-old Ana’s family marries her to 32-year-old Juan. Married and relocated to New York City from the Dominican Republic, Ana transitions from fear to discovery amidst Vietnam-era America.

• You Had Me at Hola

  a Novel

  Daria, Alexis

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  RITA Award-winning Daria whips up a telenovela-inspired romance about Jasmine, cast into a Latinx comedy series, whose recent break-up was splashed all over the tabloids. When dashing Ashton becomes her co-star, Jasmine’s love life…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fade Into You

  Darling, Nikki, 1980-

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  Nikki is a biracial teen obsessed with punk rock and musical theater at an L. A. art school who is trying to find herself amidst other ‘90s disaffected youth adrift in drugs and ambition.

• Cantoras

  De Robertis, Caro

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  Five queer women in late 1970s Uruguay find a refuge from the dictatorship and societal expectations for women on a remote cape. This novel explores the oppressive nature of dictatorship, the patriarchal, homophobic pressures of society,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sabrina & Corina

  Stories

  Fajardo-Anstine, Kali

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  This collection of short stories featuring Latinx and Indigenous women in Denver, Colorado is a meditation on the lives of women of color through the violence they face, their societal vulnerability, and their dreams and potential.

• Tears of the Trufflepig

  Flores, Fernando A., 1982-

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  Esteban Bellacosa is known for getting dirty things done in this picaresque, gonzo-esque surreal road trip into the heart of oddball characters on the fringe in border town Texas.

• My Favorite Girlfriend Was a French Bulldog

  Rodríguez Iglesias, Legna, 1984-

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  Cuban poet Iglesias shows a queer Latinx woman’s life in the round through a series of interconnected stories.

• They Could Have Named Her Anything

  a Novel

  Jimenez, Stephanie

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  Maria may attend an elite high school on the Upper East side, but college still feels like a mirage. Can Maria make her way past the heavy obstacles of racism, and class to reach her dreams?

• Fiebre Tropical

  Delgado Lopera, Julian

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  Delivered in stream-of-consciousness prose, this queer coming-of-age novel centers on Francisca, a young Colombian woman trying to break free from the confines of her hardscrabble life in Miami.

• Lost Children Archive

  Luiselli, Valeria, 1983-

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  A married couple travel to the land of the Apaches with their two children. As their marriage unravels, the narrator ruminates on the moral quandaries of oppression, survival, and the elusive nature of love.

• Subduction

  a Novel

  Millares Young, Kristen, 1981-

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  Claudia Ranks, a Latina anthropologist from Seattle, begins her fieldwork on the Makah Indian Reservation in Neah Bay and becomes entangled with a family there in this probing, psychological debut.

• Mexican Gothic

  Moreno-Garcia, Silvia

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  Headstrong Noemí Taboada in 1950s Mexico heads to the remote house of her newly married cousin Catalina after she falls ill. There is something rotten at High Place where things go from creepy to dangerous in this beguiling page-turner.

• The Book of Lost Saints

  Older, Daniel José

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  Marisol, a political prisoner who died in the Cuban Revolution, visits her descendent Ramón in New Jersey and shakes up his aimless world in more ways than one in this historical fantasy.

• Island Affair

  Oliveras, Priscilla

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  Social media influencer Sophia Vance returns to her family in Key West to recover from an eating disorder, and enlists Luis, a firefighter recovering from his own trauma, as a fake beau, in this friends to lovers romance.