Harvest the best of Hispanic Heritage Month
Harvest the best of Hispanic Heritage Month!
September is significant as September 15 is the anniversary of independence for Latin American countries Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. In addition, Mexico and Chile celebrate their independence days on September 16 and September 18, respectively.
These books have all been written by Hispanic authors or include Hispanic characters and are set in various countries around the world. Many focus their stories in the USA as this is where there are large Hispanic populations who create communities, stories and cultures within cultures.
Hispanic Heritage Month
Gonzalez and Co Trucking Co
While serving a sentence in a Mexican prison, Libertad González passes the time at the weekly Library Club, reading to her fellow inmates from whatever books she can find in the prison’s meager supply. With her stories, Libertad enthralls a group of female prisoners every bit as eccentric as the tales she tells….
Hispanic Heritage Month
The Book of Emma Reyes
A moving memoir of a young girl growing up in Colombia
Hispanic Heritage Month
The Shape of the Ruins
Two Columbian politicians are murdered and the country starts seeking answers.Separated by more than 30 years, the two murders at first appear unconnected, but as the novel progresses Vásquez reveals how between them they contain the seeds of the violence that has bedevilled Colombia ever since.
Hispanic Heritage Month
Sudden Death
The story of a world important tennis match between Caravaggio and the Spanish poet Quevedo…but the story within the story illustrates the life and time of Cortes and the conquest of Mexico and the founding of the Aztec culture.
Hispanic Heritage Month
The Book of Unknown Americans
When fifteen-year-old Maribel Rivera sustains a terrible injury, the Riveras leave behind a comfortable life in Mexico and risk everything to come to the United States so that Maribel can have the care she needs.
Hispanic Heritage Month
Prayers for the Stolen
‘The best thing you can be in Mexico is an ugly girl.’ This heartbreaking and true life tale explains why..
Hispanic Heritage Month
Fruit of the Drunken Tree
During the Escobar war on Colombia during the 1990s, two women forge a potentially dangerous friendship..
This book gives a unique insight into the reality of living during the Escobar reign of terror. When the drug baron meant that life was a daily struggle to survive and stay alive. For young families who had never touched drugs, they had to stay safe and avoid the guerrillas intent on overthrowing the government – the daily hangings, kidnappings and more meant Colombia was a dangerous place to be. If a privileged girl met one from the other side of the tracks – the poverty side of the city – who knows what could result….it was just too dangerous not to stick with your own…
Hispanic Heritage Month
Harvest of Empire
This book has been updated many times since it was written, and that in itself illustrates just how much the world is changing and how the Hispanic communities are changing with them. The stories of American intervention in Latin and Central American politics, the immigration from those countries to the USA, the assimilation into the new communities and the culture and changing language which results. It’s a fascinating process
Hispanic Heritage Month
Bodega Dreams
Now this is a clever one. The retelling of The Great Gatsby through Hispanic eyes. All set in Spanish Harlem, New York…..
Hispanic Heritage Month
Crux
The story of a woman chasing the demons of her father as he battles all number of substance abuses. The borders in this memoir are both real and within the realms of a man on the edge and a daughter going after him and his demons. The borders here are between truth and fiction, real and imaginary.
Read more about why this month is so special and why Hispanic culture is so important – Hispanic Heritage Month
