Cañas is a Mexican-American author and says in an author’s note that she picked this time period and wrote these characters in part to fill a gap that she had found in this genre. She had never read stories about women like her. In that same author’s note, she also recommends ...
and the people who dwell on both sides. It’s a rich tapestry that he gives us: struggling Mexican-American families who live in intergenerational homes and tight-knit communities, more affluent families who are sent to the border to manage companies there, private schools run by nuns, public...
by Guadalupe Nettel, transl. by Rosalind Harvey FacebookTwitter Mexican writer Guadalupe Nettel'sThe Accidentalscontains eight poignant first-person stories of people seeking to make connections and right the wrongs of the past. In "Imprinting," a woman stumbles on her estranged uncle while visiting...
Mexican GothicmeetsEverything I Never Told Youin Christina Li’s haunting novel about the secrets that lie in wait in the crumbling mansion of a former Hollywood starlet, and the intertwined fates of the two Chinese American families fighting to inherit it. ...
The Mexican author Socorro Venegas’ fine collection explores the transition to motherhood, the early stages of pregnancy through the first year or so, where doubts, uncertainty, and strictures from outside one’s self and the process, at times, difficult to adjust to. In economical prose (only...
By the time Morgan solves the crime, he will make a long, solitary, and dangerous horseback ride deep into a turbulent Mexico, risk his life during a deadly encounter with Mexican bandits, and re-examine his own feelings concerning racial equality. A Troublesome Affair is a mystery with ...
“Pérez’s perspective on Mexican American culture in Texas is authentic; the gritty setting and hard-knocks characters carry the story.”—The Horn Book Guide “Pérez breathes credible and engaging life into her calculus-loving protagonist and the assorted adults and youth with whom she copes,...
Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison Published in: 2008 Author: Jonathan Evison Genre: Fiction, Coming-of-Age Purchase here This is a coming-of-age novel that follows the story of Mike Munoz, a young Mexican American trying to navigate life's challenges while working as a landscape worker. Whil...
The most distinguishedcompositionto issue from these endeavours wasGrandeza mexicana(1604; “Mexican Greatness” or “The Magnificence of Mexico City”), a long poem in praise of Mexico City byBernardo de Balbuena. A highly elaborate piece, Balbuena’s poem celebrates Mexico City as the crossroads...
Darío, its leader, was the first great poet in the Spanish language since 17th-century Mexican writer Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Darío’s slim volume of poetic prose and poetry Azul (1888; “Blue”) is a watershed for both Latin American and Spanish literature. Darío, who had been ...