2024 Adult Hispanic Heritage Month


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Growing up as the daughter of Mexican immigrants in Chicago in the nineties, Erika Sánchez was a self-described pariah, misfit, and disappointment—a foul-mouthed, melancholic rabble-rouser who painted her nails black but also loved comedy, often laughing so hard with her friends that she had to leave her school classroom. Twenty-five years later, she’s now an award-winning novelist, poet, and essayist, but she’s still got an irrepressible laugh,...
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"An anthology of short stories, essays, poetry, and comics about the Mexican American experience"--
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En esta colección que mezcla diferentes géneros: cuentos, ensayos personales, poesía y cómics, este grupo célebre de autores comparte las fronteras que han cruzado, los obstáculos que han atravesado y las dos culturas por las que continúan navegando como mexicoamericanos. Más allá de la frontera es a la vez una carta de amor reveladora, desgarradora y esperanzadora de la comunidad mexicoamericana a los lectores jóvenes de hoy. Una poderosa...
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Edited by Saraciea J. Fennell and featuring an all-star cast of Latinx contributors, this is a ground-breaking anthology that will spark dialogue and inspire hope. Bestselling and award-winning authors as well as up-and-coming voices interrogate the different myths and stereotypes about the Latinx diaspora. These fifteen original pieces delve into everything from ghost stories and superheroes, to memories in the kitchen and travels around the world,...