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This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz
Thus far, mega-award winning Junot Díaz (also recently bestowed the “Genius” moniker by the MacArthur Foundation) hasn’t written a book without his sort-of autobiographical stand-in… more →
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This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz
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wrote 5 months ago: Thus far, mega-award winning Junot Díaz (also recently bestowed the “Genius” moniker by … more →
Conquistadora by Esmeralda Santiago
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wrote 8 months ago: I think I must have been a Boricua in a former life. I can’t seem to stay away too long from L … more →
The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano by Sonia Manzano
wrote 9 months ago: Not to confuse anyone, but I have to start with p. 177 because that’s where you’ll find … more →
A Wedding in Haiti by Julia Alvarez
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wrote 1 year ago: Neither Julia Alvarez nor her husband Bill can remember exactly when she fell in love with a Haitian … more →
Return to Sender by Julia Alvarez
wrote 1 year ago: Here’s a rather unique literary coincidence: Julia Alvarez‘s Finding Miracles ends with … more →
Finding Miracles by Julia Alvarez
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wrote 1 year ago: Sandwiched between sister Kate and brother Nate, Milly Kaufman is the only adopted child of their Je … more →
Stir It Up by Ramin Ganeshram
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wrote 1 year ago: Food writer Ramin Ganeshram shares her Indo-Caribbean culinary prowess in her debut title for younge … more →
Drown by Junot Díaz
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wrote 2 years ago: Talk about a surprisingly fortuitous bonus: If you get the audible version of The Brief Wondrous Lif … more →
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
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wrote 2 years ago: Here are a few new things I learned from Junot Díaz‘s 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winner tha … more →
Eight Days: A Story of Haiti by Edwidge Danticat, illustrated by Alix Delinois
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wrote 2 years ago: This has been one tragic week: the deadly Oaxaca, Mexico mudslide, the two Rutgers freshmen whose ab … more →
I and I: Bob Marley by Tony Medina, illustrated by Jesse Joshua Watson
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wrote 4 years ago: A gorgeously rendered collection of poems that capture the colorful life of Nesta Robert Marley, bor … more →
He Drown She in the Sea by Shani Mootoo
wrote 7 years ago: This one is just delicious – and delightfully plotted as to how it plays with time and place and peo … more →
The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat + Author Interview
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wrote 8 years ago: Horror, Hope & Redemption: A Talk with Edwidge Danticat About Her Latest Novel, The Dew Breaker … more →
House of Waiting by Marina Tamar Budhos
wrote 16 years ago: Sarah, a young and naive New York Jew, impulsively marries Roland, an Indian immigrant from the Cari … more →
A Feather on the Breath of God by Sigrid Nunez
wrote 16 years ago: A young woman, the child of a Chinese Panamanian father and a German mother, grows up in New York ho … more →
Series Profile: First Person Fiction
wrote 9 years ago: Behind the Mountains by Edwidge Danticat Flight to Freedom by Ana Veciana-Suarez Finding My Hat by J … more →
