epub |eng | 2019-09-28 | Author:Prerna Lal [Lal, Prerna]

The New Age of Resistance Thousands of immigrants in the United States woke up to a new political reality on November 9, 2016: Donald Trump, the most rabidly anti-immigrant, white ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jennine Capó Crucet

* * * One morning, I snuck cookies from the previous night’s dinner into my saddlebag for that day’s ride: The six hours a day on a horse turned out ...

epub |eng | 2019-10-01 | Author:Aaron Sanchez

CHAPTER THIRTEEN LIVING THE DREAM After I left Isla, I decided to dial it back a bit. I had been approached about doing some consulting in the past, but I ...

epub |eng | 2019-08-01 | Author:Claudia D. Hernández

Getting to Know Javi The next day, early in the morning, our group gathered in front of the flophouse. Javi brought everyone scrambled eggs and tortillas. He called them burritos. ...

epub |eng | | Author:LeJuan James

Picnic Time! Food is so important to us, it goes beyond the dinner table and into everywhere we go. If we’re off to the park, we’re packing a picnic; if ...

epub |eng | | Author:Cherríe Moraga

LIKE THE HERON We knew we had been functioning in the spirit of “last times” for a few years. Although the pretext was a family birthday, my mother’s last trip ...

epub |eng | 2019-01-22 | Author:Silvana Paternostro

* María Félix, one of Mexico’s iconic movie stars from the forties and fifties, the golden age of Mexican cinema, is like a Mexican Elizabeth Taylor. 18 Geography Lesson In ...

epub |eng | 2019-02-26 | Author:César Aira

VI Like all of my contemporaries, I could die at any moment. Today, tomorrow, yesterday. An accident, or a fatal illness (it wouldn’t be all that unusual, at my age) ...

epub |eng | 2017-04-08 | Author:Clay Cane

“YOU FAGGOT NIGGER!” KATIE BARKED, PUSHING ME against a locker, finger in my face. This was my daily hell in seventh grade, I was harassed by my evil peers in ...

epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Richard Blanco

. . . equations to solve, history to question, or atoms imagined . . . Many other artistic revelations and decisions happened while sitting with America at my kitchen table ...

mobi |eng | 2006-09-01 | Author:González, Rigoberto [González, Rigoberto]

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-07-16 | Author:Daisy Hernandez [Hernández, Daisy]

Some of my friends, oftentimes the ones that harbored forbidden crushes in eighth grade, are curious about me. “Did you think you were a lesbian then?” they ask. “Didn’t you ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Diane Guerrero

My twenty-second birthday in Boston. CHAPTER 12 The Edge In the broken places, the light shines through. —LEONARD COHEN, singer Forecasters had predicted snow, and on the evening of December ...

epub |eng | | Author:Richard Blanco

WHEN I WOKE UP THE NEXT MORNING, CACO AND my primas were already gone. Hurt, I realized they must have snuck out of the room early while I was still ...

epub |eng | | Author:Daniel Connolly

Chapter Six MOTIVATION April 2012: One month before graduation AS THE BUS MOVED SOUTH, Isaias and Daniel Nix played a trivia game on a cell phone. “Latvia!” Isaias called out, ...