Jennifer Maritza McCauley’s short story collection, When Trying to Return Home, takes complex characters and situations and weaves them into a tapestry that provides the reader with an emotional journey. The collection demonstrates McCauley’s dexterity as a writer as she shifts voices, styles, and points of view. In McCauley’s first book, Scar On / Scar …
In her collection of essays, For Brown Girls With Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color, Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez speaks to the experiences of “Brown Girls” through a critical feminist lens. Bringing a fresh perspective as a Nicaraguan American she broadens Latinx feminist writing, which often center the experiences …
Hay ocasiones felices en las que un libro me lleva de vuelta a La Habana. Me lleva de la mano, del pie o metiéndome, con todo y cabeza, en el ambiente cálido, gritón y el aire medio sucio de la ciudad. Es el caso de Muerte en La Habana (Vanilla Planifolia, 2021), del profesor de …
In White Space, Jennifer De Leon’s collection of essays, she cleverly uses the term “white space” to address a multiplicity of Latinx experiences. You might, as I did, assume that she would be referring mainly to spaces that are physically and culturally dominated by white Americans. While she does share the challenges that she experiences …
Readers of the bestseller Mexican Gothic are sure to flock to Velvet Was the Night, the latest work by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Her seventh novel is a masterful historical noir that delivers mystery, romance, and plenty of vintage tunes. Set in 1971 Mexico City, the novel is prefaced by a confidential telegram issued by the United …
