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The authors did extensive research, from visiting the campsites to primary source oral histories, but most importantly, they were able to get their Japanese American family elders to open up about their personal experiences (not an easy thing to do!). The result is a page-turner that belongs...
4. Unbreakable: My Story, My Wayby Jenni Rivera Before Mexican singer Jenni Rivera died in a plane crash, she had been writing a memoir about her journey from living in a beat up garage to becoming a platinum-selling artist and mother of six. This will have you laughing so hard but in...
love and the borderlands between cultures. The family of Miguel de La Cruz, or “Big Angel,” has gathered to celebrate the dying patriarch’s final birthday, when, unexpectedly, Big Angel’s elderly mother passes away. As the weekend unfolds and the Mexican-American clan recount...
By Sandra A. Gutierrez (Knopf) Gutierrez’s roots: Guatemala/U.S. Sandra Gutierrez likes to say that “Latin American food is like a big house. The front door is Mexican cuisine. But once you walk over the threshold of that Latin American house, there are 20 other kitchens, and they’...
THE BOOKS INTERVIEW: `Latin American Writers Grew Iguanas to Make Them Look like Dinosaurs' ; There's a New, Cool Mexican Wave Breaking, in Fiction and in Film. Ignacio Padilla - Novelist and Diplomat - Is Riding It in London. Boyd Tonkin Meets a Writer with the Whole World in His ...
Top Five Books of 2020:Born a Crime,The Ten Thousand Doors of January,The Happy Ever After Playlist,Mexican Gothic,andA Darker Shade of Magicmake my top most top five of the five-star reviewed titles. Five other five-star reads includeBecoming,Digital Minimalism,The Lost Words,Recommended for...
Mexican American authorLuis Alberto Urreawill be at the festival on Sunday with his new novel,“The House of Broken Angels.”He talked to writer Mark Athitakis about how it was inspired partly by the death of his half-brother, and partly by Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric:“It’s...
The Pearl is a novella by American author John Steinbeck, published in 1947. It is the story of a pearl diver, Kino, and explores man's nature as well as greed and evil. Steinbeck's inspiration was a Mexican folk tale from La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico, which he had heard in...
On Friday, we had a visit to our school by author and illustrator Duncan Tonatiuh. See his artwork here. He is both Mexican and American. He grew up in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico and graduated from Parsons School of Design in New York City. His artwork is inspired by Pre-Columbian ...