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• Cantoras

  De Robertis, Carolina

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  Five women survive decades under brutal dictatorships, carving out a safe-ish queer life to achieve healing. Yet Malena will haunt you.

• Once I Was You

  A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America

  Hinojosa, Maria

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  A memoir that is equal parts U.S. immigration, U.S. politics, and the examination of self. Bring tissue. The brutality she survives will squeeze your heart.

• Tender Is the Flesh

  a Novel

  Bazterrica, Agustina María, 1974-

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  Orwellian wordsmithing sanitizes the language around cannibalism in a dystopian future. It explores the horror of how easily we participate in this futuristic terror.

• Unforgetting

  a Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas

  Lovato, Roberto

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  "Forgetting begets forgetting begets ongoing mass murder." Traumatology is the science of making the bones speak. You will shiver while crying.

• You Sound Like a White Girl

  The Case for Rejecting Assimilation

  Arce, Julissa

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  Assimilation does not create safety in our country. Chapter 4 will burst your tear ducts when she covers the ones we have lost.

• A Tall Dark Trouble

  Montalban, Vanessa

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  How many monsters does it take to prop up a dictator? And what sacrifices have to be made to hold onto tangent power? Delfi and Lela have an awakening to their magic, and you will ugly cry for all that Anita has lost.

• If I Die in Juarez

  Duarte, Stella Pope

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  Fourteen year old Evita suffers in all ways imaginable. Set at the height of the femicides, the banality of evil will make you sob.

• The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez

  a Border Story

  Bobrow-Strain, Aaron

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  You will cry and cheer for Aida. This non-fiction unveils the depths of chaos that is immigration law.

• Good Night, Irene

  a Novel

  Urrea, Luis Alberto

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  The last 20% of the book WILL make you ugly cry! Vonnegut shows us what PTSD looks like for men who survived WWII. Women's PTSD from WWII was a neglected history until Urrea brought it to the pages of Good Night, Irene.

• In the Country We Love

  My Family Divided

  Guerrero, Diane • Burford, Michelle

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  Her story is about living with trauma after her family is deported. She writes candidly about therapy, depression, and self-sabotaging behaviors that springs from her parents' deportation. Chapter after chapter had me in tears.

• Borderless

  De Leon, Jennifer, 1979-

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  When Maya witnesses a murder, she and her mother flee Guatemala. Their separation while crossing to the U.S. forces Maya to choose between "making something new from the wreckage" of her life, or to return to Guatemala with her deported mother.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Cuentista

  Donna Barba Higuera

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  Or course Sci-Fi can make you weep! Higuera crafts a global apocalypse, and who gets left behind is crushing! On board the generational ark ships, a sinister collective hatches a scheme. Can our hero make it to an exoplanet where life can continue?

• The Wind Knows My Name

  a Novel

  Allende, Isabel

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  A European holocaust, the El Mozote Massacre, and the mass execution of indigenous Central Americans are the historical strands that Allende weaves together. The characters from each historical period meet in Berkeley, and together, they work to…Read moreRead more of this annotation