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Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"My name is Otolorin. I've been called monster. Within dark valleys of flesh I defy the given - a snake curled in upon itself, two-in-one, mythical and shunned. Yet, in that magic place between worlds, in the realm where the great mother gives milk to her offspring, I become like a goddess. An Ordinary Wonder is a powerful coming-of-age story that explores complex desires as well as challenges of family, identity, gender, and culture, and what it...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"There was a time when the family K�unstler lived in the fairy-tale city of Vienna. Circumstances transformed that fairy tale into a nightmare, and in 1939 the K�unstlers found their way out of Vienna and into a new fairy tale: Los Angeles, California, United States of America. An ill-timed visit forces twentysomething New Yorker Julian to shelter in place in Venice Beach with his glamorous and eccentric ninety-three-year-old grandmother, Mamie...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"In the swirl of Philadelphia at the end of Prohibition, Leyb meets Charles. They are at a former speakeasy called Cricket’s, a bar that welcomes, as Charles says in his secondhand Yiddish, feygeles. Leyb is startled; fourteen years in amerike has taught him that his native tongue is not known beyond his people. And yet here is suave Charles—fingers stained with ink, an easy manner with the barkeep—a Black man from the Seventh Ward, a fellow...
24) The new American
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Emilio thinks he is living the American Dream: his parents, who emigrated from Guatemala to California, sacrifice daily to make sure of it. And his life seems relatively normal until he turns sixteen. Like most teenagers, Emilio is determined to get his driver's license--however, his mother dissuades him from doing so. When Emilio asks why, his parents reveal a shocking secret: he is undocumented. Emilio adjusts to his new normal. Under the Dreamers'...
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"During a snowy Cleveland February, newlyweds Muneer and Saeedah are starting their lives in America and expecting their first child. But Muneer harbors a secret: the word divorce has begun whispering itself in his ear. Soon, their marriage will end, and Muneer will return to Saudi Arabia, while Saeedah remains in Cleveland with their daughter, Hanadi. The more time she shares with her daughter, the more Saeedah wants to keep her close, and before...
26) Norte
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Language
Español
Description
Esta es una historia de tres destinos separados por el tiempo y el espacio pero interconectados por la violencia, el desarraigo, la creacion y la locura; tres vidas extraviadas en el cruce de mundos y fronteras que caracteriza a nuestra epoca. En un pequeno pueblo del norte de Mexico, Jesus deja el colegio y se une a una pandilla. Para impresionar a sus nuevos companeros apunala a una prostituta, iniciando asi una carrera criminal que le llevara a...
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