Category: Chicana/Latina/Latinx Interest

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Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Díaz

Ordinary Girls | Jaquira Díaz | In this searing memoir, Jaquira Díaz writes fiercely and eloquently of her challenging girlhood and triumphant coming of age.

While growing u

Posted in Chicana/Latina/Latinx Interest YA Fiction (Young Adult)

The Lesbiana’s Guide To Catholic School by Sonora Reyes

The Lesbiana’s Guide To Catholic School | Sonora Reyes | Sixteen-year-old Yamilet Flores prefers to be known for her killer eyeliner, not for being one of the only Mexican kids at her new, mostly white, very

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Guava Flavored Lies by J.J. Arias

Guava Flavored Lies | J.J. Arias | All’s Fair in Love and (Pastry) War

Sylvie Campos and Lauren Machado have hated each other since before they were born. For generations, the

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Just Your Local Bisexual Disaster by Andrea Mosqueda

Just Your Local Bisexual Disaster | Andrea Mosqueda | In this voice-driven young adult debut by Andrea Mosqueda, Maggie Gonzalez needs a date to her sister’s quinceañera – and fast.

Growing up in

Posted in Chicana/Latina/Latinx Interest Literary Collections Literary History

Confessions Of The Letter Closet by Patrick Paul Garlinger

Confessions Of The Letter Closet | Patrick Paul Garlinger | By the beginning of the twentieth century, epistolary novels in Spain increasingly grappled with homoerotic and homosexual desire, treating it as a se

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Compañeras: Latina Lesbians (An Anthology), Lesbianas Latinoamericanas by

Compa¤eras: Latina Lesbians (An Anthology), Lesbianas Latinoamericanas | | Originally published in 1987 and revised in 2004, Compa¤eras speaks with the voices of Latina lesbians who are puertorrique¤as, chicanas, cubanas, chi

Posted in Chicana/Latina/Latinx Interest Correspondence

Radical Hope by Carolina De Robertis (Editor)

Radical Hope | Carolina De Robertis (Editor) | Radical Hope is a collection of letters to ancestors, to children five generations from now, to strangers in grocery lines, to any and all who feel we

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As You Look by Veronica Gutierrez

As You Look | Veronica Gutierrez | Former LAPD cop-turned private investigator Yolanda Ávila blames herself for her mother’s death. If she’d only followed her cop instincts instead of t

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Native Country Of The Heart by Cherrie Moraga

Native Country Of The Heart | Cherrie Moraga | From the celebrated editor of This Bridge Called My Back, Cherríe Moraga charts her own coming-of-age alongside her mother’s decline, and also tells t

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Loving In The War Years: Lo Que Nunca Pasó Por Sus Labios by Cherrie Moraga

Loving In The War Years: Lo Que Nunca Pasó Por Sus Labios | Cherrie Moraga | Weaving together poetry and prose, Spanish and English, family history and political theory, Loving in the War Years has been a classic in the feminis