Latinx Heritage Month (September 15-October 15) is a time to recognize and honor the histories and cultures of Latinx people in the United States. Here at the Library, we want to give special emphasis to our collections of Latinx and Latin American authors. Check out one of these books today and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram using the hashtag #GULatinx
Are you interested in award-winning contemporary fiction? Check out the Pulitzer Prize winning The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Dominican American author Junot Diaz or the internationally acclaimed Faces in the Crowd, by Mexican writer Valeria Luiselli. Luiselli also wrote Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions, a groundbreaking essay on her work with Central American refugee children in New York.
If you’re looking to read (or reread) some classics, head to the fifth floor to find Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez or The house of the spirits by Isabel Allende. También tenemos ejemplares en español: El amor en los tiempos del cólera y La casa de los espíritus.
Lastly, these critical works might be of interest: The Afro-Latin@ reader: history and culture in the United States edited by Miriam Jiménez Román and Juan Flores; The Latina/o midwest reader edited by Omar Valerio-Jiménez, Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez, and Claire F. Fox; Critical terms in Caribbean and Latin American thought : historical and institutional trajectories, edited by Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel, Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui, and Marisa Belausteguigoitia.