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Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
by Jason De Leâon
An internationally recognized anthropologist, who embedded himself within a group of smugglers moving migrants across Mexico over the course of seven years, presents this first-ever, character-driven look at human smuggling that revolves around the life and death of one coyote who falls in love and tries to leave smuggling behind.
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Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave: My Cemetery Journeys
by Mariana Enriquez
Combining travel, history, and personal reflection, this unconventional memoir follows a writer through cemeteries across four continents as she explores their history and architecture as well as their emotional resonance, revealing how these spaces mirror the living world and shape her own literary perspective.
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Jailbreak of Sparrows: Poems
by Martâin Espada
The poems in Jailbreak of Sparrows are about the ways in which the ordinary becomes monumental: portraits of loved ones, politically-charged meditations, and tributes to the unsung. Moving from his upbringing in New York City and his work as a legal aidin Boston, to the chapters that are still being written, time crystallizes within Espada's Whitmanesque lines, and brings the world - with all of its tenderness, wit, and violence - into focus.
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My Side of the River: A Memoir
by Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez
Exploring separation, generational trauma and the toll of the American dream, the author recounts what happened when, at 15, her parents were forced back to Mexico, leaving her and her brother to fend for themselves as underage children affected by broken immigration laws.
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Latinisimo: Home Recipes from the Twenty-one Countries of Latin America
by Sandra A. Gutierrez
With recipes that delve into cuisines from across Latin America, delivering classic, home-cooked dishes readers could find in the kitchens of 21 different countries. The first chapter contains essential building blocks, covering sauces to spices, broths to crepes. Following chapters divide the recipes by essential ingredients, with introductions that highlight the importance of each--historically and today--and share the dish's country of origin, difficulty, and cooking time, along with other great reading.
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Dreaming of Home: How We Turn Fear into Pride, Power, and Real Change
by Cristina Jimenez
The award-winning community organizer chronicles her life as ab undocumented immigrant in New York City facing systemic racism and community challenges while discovering her purpose in social justice and reimagining the concept of home amid societal upheaval. 60,000 first printing.
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Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey
by Edel Rodriguez
This stunning graphic memoir of a childhood in Cuba doubles as the story of the author's coming-of-age as an artist and activist who, witnessing American's turn from democracy to extremism, struggled to differentiate his adoptive county from the dictatorship he fled.
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The SalviSoul Cookbook: Salvadoran Recipes & the Women Who Preserve Them
by Karla Tatiana Vasquez
A food historian and Salvadoran, through this collection of 80 recipes, shares the stories of the women in her life who reveal shared experiences of what it was like in El Salvador before the war, and what life was like as Salvadoran women surviving in their new home in the U.S.
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