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I'm reading The Man Who Could Move Clouds by Ingrid Rojas Contreras. I am totally seduced by her narrative and reading very slowly as I savor the language. I loved reading The German Girl by Armando Lucas Correa and The Underground RailRoad by Colson Whitehead haunts my dreams. Other of my recent favorites are Natasha Tretheway's Memorial Highway and Allende's Violeta, and Crystal Wilkinson's The Birds of Opulence. I have so many books on my TR stack that I couldn't possibly list them all, but looking forward to some memoirs--Cecily Tyson's and Viola Davis'. My research stack is huge, especially since my recent trip to PR. Here are some of the titles I can't wait to dive into: Letters to a Writer of Color; Drops of Inclusivity: Racail Formations and Meanings in Puerto Rican Society 1898-1955.; El negro y la negra libres: PR 1800-1873, su presencia y contribución; Sembrando y sanando en PR, tradiciones y visiones; Tras la huella del negro; and Spiritist Women in PR, 1880-1920. I'll just stop here.

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Wow!! What a wonderful library of books here!

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I recommend Uprooted Minds: Surviving the Politics of Terror in the Americas --Psychoanalysis, History and Memorir by Nancy Caro Hollander. What has happened in our minds and hearts to allow the ongoing violence in Latin America, México, and our Borderland? We are still reeling from the Migrant deaths in Juárez and will never recover from the Walmart shooting. This incisive book is one of a collection of books in the Human Rights Section of our Museo de La Gente, our Archival Resource Center.

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Mil gracias, Denise! Would you like to post a link to your website so folks can order from you directly? xox

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I will do that. Thank you, querida! Hope all is well.

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I’ve been reading poems from Jose Olivarez’ Promises of Gold, son of Mexican immigrants, with translation on the verso by Mexicano David Ruano Gonzalez. I try to read a poem a day from here, beginning to feel them inside my skin. About to start Olga Tokarczuck’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead. My son gave me for my birthday the lovely “Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal,” poems by Margarita Engle really for children but not and another set in Panama, by Juan David Morgan, “Con ardientes fulgores de gloria.” Though I’ve lived here since I was 20, I don’t want to lose my native Spanish.

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What a terrific list! I'm a big fan of Tokarczuck...

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I loved Hello Stranger by Katherine Center and Orphan #8 by Kim van Alkamade. I am enjoying Girls and Their Horses by Eliza Jane Brazier.

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Intriguing list! Thanks for sharing.

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Way late to this, but here is my recent list: The Chinese Groove by Kathryn Ma. The Tribe: Portraits of Cuba by a terrific young Cuban writer, Carlos Manuel Alvarez. Trust by Hernan Diaz (which generated a lot of discussion in our book group), White Noise by Don Dilillo, this is one that has been on my list for a while and ten pages into it makes me question what took me so damn long. For research I've read quite a bit, but here are a few: The Country Under My Skin by Gioconda Belli, who is a wonderful writer. Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer. Heroes, Martyrs and Political Messiahs in Revolutionary Cuba 1946-1958 by Lillian Guerra. Infante's Inferno by Guillermo Cabrera Infante.

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Such a fantastic list, Jesus! Thanks for sharing!

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Brujas, please do visit our website as we have many books donated, and aquired from many fabulous sources. Our Latin American holdings are prodigious. We also have a Golden Age of Spain Collection, Erotica, Chicano/a and Latina/o books for adults and children. If a book is out there, we can find it. https://www.abebooks.com/casa-camino-real-las-cruces-nm/55655980/sf

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HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!

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I have looked online and on Ingram and the book is rare and hard to find. Still, it's worth having if you want it.

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I'm in a deep dive on postwar Japan right now! But I think this community would definitely welcome browsing your book offerings. Mil gracias!

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I recently read The Armies by Evelio Rosero. I cried thinking about aging, loss, and the evil of unchecked power.

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Aleida, I read The Armies some years ago--a bookseller in Colombia had put it in my hands. It's the most beautiful, affecting book I've read in Spanish. I hadn't thought to find what else he has written. Have you read any of his other books that you can recommend?

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I'll have to check this one out!

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Sounds like something I will want to read. Another addition to my BTR

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I am currently reading "The Sound of Things Falling" by Juan Gabriel Vasquez. After surviving the Miami Cocaine Wars and frequent trips to Medellin, I wanted to read a literary work from a Colombian author, who explores an aspect of that era...

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Evelio Rosero is also Colombian.

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So is Ingrid Rojas Contreras. She's Colombian American. Her first book Fruit from a Drunken Tree is also excellent. Helped me look at the history of 1970s Colombia from a very personal point of view.

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Intriguing! I was in Miami in the mid-80s, too!

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Currently reading OLGA DIES DREAMING by Xochitl Gonzalez, a recommendation by my buddy Ricky. I'm definitely late to the party with this one, but it's really wonderful to read a novel that's so deeply Nuyorican.

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I enjoyed this book too.

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I just bought this!!

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Dear Edward by Ann napolitano. It's a compassionately written book and an exquisite look at grief.

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Also Big Swiss by jen Beagin. Very funny and smart.

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Yes!

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I've been hearing about this one! On my list ...

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