In these twelve stories about the lives of Latin Americans in Europe, García Márquez conveys the peculiar amalgam of melancholy, tenacity, sorrow, and aspiration that is the émigré experience.
Latin Americans
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Author:García Márquez, GabrielSummary: - Author:Bátiz Zuk, Martha BeatrizSummary:
The nineteen stories in No Stars in the Sky feature strong but damaged female characters in crisis. Tormented by personal conflicts and oppressive regimes that treat the female body like a trophy of war, the women in No Stars in the Sky...
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Author:Quintero, IsabelSummary:When Daisy Ramona zooms around her neighborhood with her papi on his motorcycle, she sees the people and places she's always known. She also sees a community that is rapidly changing around her. But as the sun sets purple-blue-gold...
- Author:Quintero, IsabelSummary:
Cuando Daisy Ramona va zumbando por su barrio con Papi en su moto, ve a la gente y los lugares que conoce desde siempre: ¡la tortillería! ¡La iglesia de Abuelita! ¡Franky, el labradoodle que ladra! También ve una comunidad que está...
- Author:Fragoza, CarribeanSummary:
In visceral, embodied prose, Fragoza's imperfect characters are drawn with a sympathetic tenderness as they struggle against circumstances and conditions designed to defeat them. A young woman returns home from college, only to...
- Author:Thomas, AidenSummary:
This program includes a bonus conversation with the author. A trans boy determined to prove his gender to his traditional Latinx family summons a ghost who refuses to leave in Aiden Thomas's paranormal YA debut Cemetery Boys,...
