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• Crying in the Bathroom

  a Memoir

  Sánchez, Erika L.,

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  "Growing up as the daughter of Mexican immigrants in Chicago in the '90s, Erika L. Sánchez was a self-described pariah, misfit, and disappointment--a foul-mouthed, melancholic rabble-rouser who painted her nails black but also loved comedy and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Beloved World

  Sotomayor, Sonia, 1954-

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  "The first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has become an instant American icon. Now, with a candor and intimacy never undertaken by a sitting Justice, she recounts her life from a Bronx housing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Alligator Tears

  a Memoir in Essays

  Gomez, Edgar (Writer),

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  "Alligator Tears is a fiercely defiant memoir-in-essays charting Gomez’s quest to claw his family out of poverty by any means necessary and exposing the archetype of the humble poor person for what it is: a scam that insists we remain quiet and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Side of the River

  a Memoir

  Gutierrez, Elizabeth Camarillo,

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  "Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez reveals her experience as the U.S. born daughter of immigrants and what happened when, at fifteen, her parents were forced back to Mexico in this galvanizing yet tender memoir."

• Accordion Eulogies

  a Memoir of Music, Migration, and Mexico

  Álvarez, Noé,

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  "Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noé Álvarez never knew his grandfather. Stories swirled around this mythologized, larger-than-life figure: that he had abandoned his family, and had possibly done something awful that put a curse on his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Illegally Yours

  a Memoir

  Agustin, Rafael,

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  "A funny and poignant memoir about how as a teenager, TV writer Rafael Agustin (Jane The Virgin) accidentally discovered he was undocumented and how that revelation turned everything he thought he knew about himself and his family upside down."

• Mother Island

  a Daughter Claims Puerto Rico

  Figueroa, Jamie,

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  "Growing up in the Midwest, raised by a Puerto Rican mother who was abandoned by her family, Jamie Figueroa and her sisters were estranged from their culture, consumed by the whiteness that surrounded them. In Mother Island, Figueroa traces her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Worm

  a Cuban American Odyssey

  Rodriguez, Edel,

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  "Hailed for his iconic art on the cover of Time and on jumbotrons around the world, Edel Rodriguez is among the most prominent political artists of our age. Now for the first time, he draws his own life, revisiting his childhood in Cuba and his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• First Gen

  a Memoir

  Campoverdi, Alejandra,

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  "Alejandra Campoverdi has been a child on welfare, a White House aide to President Obama, a Harvard graduate, a gang member’s girlfriend, and a candidate for U.S. Congress. She’s ridden on Air Force One and in G-rides. She’s been featured in Maxim…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Solito

  a Memoir

  Zamora, Javier,

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  "When Javier Zamora was nine, he traveled unaccompanied by bus, boat, and foot from El Salvador to the United States to reunite with his parents. This is his memoir of that dangerous journey, a nine-week odyssey that nearly ended in calamity on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Desi Arnaz

  the Man Who Invented Television

  Purdum, Todd S.,

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  "An illuminating biography of Desi Arnaz, the visionary, trailblazing Cuban American who revolutionized television and brought laughter to millions as Lucille Ball’s beloved husband on I Love Lucy, leaving a remarkable legacy that continues to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Undocumented Americans

  Cornejo Villavicencio, Karla,

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  "Writer Karla Cornejo Villavicencio was on DACA when she decided to write about being undocumented for the first time using her own name. It was right after the election of 2016, the day she realized the story she'd tried to steer clear of was the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Alou

  My Baseball Journey

  Alou, Felipe, 1935-

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  "Growing up in a tiny shack in the Dominican Republic, Felipe Alou never dreamed he would be the first man born and raised in his country to play and manage in Major League Baseball--and also the first to play in the World Series."

• Relentless

  My Story of the Latino Spirit That Is Transforming America

  Miranda, Luis A.,

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  "A veteran of New York and national politics, Luis Miranda embodies the relentless spirit of progress of American immigrant. In Relentless, he shares his experience, passion, and storytelling charm to tell the story of a fascinating life and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Cup of Water Under My Bed

  a Memoir

  Hernández, Daisy,

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  "In this lyrical, coming-of-age memoir, Daisy Hernández chronicles what the women in her Cuban-Colombian family taught her about love, money, and race. Her mother warns her about envidia and men who seduce you with pastries, while one tía bemoans…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• American Chica

  Two Worlds, One Childhood

  Arana, Marie (Writer)

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  "In her father’s Peruvian family, Marie Arana was taught to be a proper lady, yet in her mother’s American family she learned to shoot a gun, break a horse, and snap a chicken’s neck for dinner. Arana shuttled easily between these deeply separate…Read moreRead more of this annotation