National Hispanic Heritage Month continues through October 15th! Explore our Featured Collection, celebrating those with ancestry from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central & South America, including:
Chilean-born Violeta narrates her life story, recounting devastating heartbreak and passionate affairs, times of both poverty and wealth, terrible loss and immense joy. Her life is shaped by some of the most important events of history: the fight for women's rights, the rise and fall of tyrants, and two pandemics.
At nine years old, Javier begins a three-thousand-mile journey from El Salvador to reunite with his mother and father. He cannot foresee the perilous trip ahead and the deceptions that await him; nor can he know that those two weeks will expand into two life-altering months.
A mother and daughter take a trip to Sicily - the narrator’s marriage has collapsed, her mother is losing her memory, and her daughter is on the threshold of adolescence, starting to ask difficult questions. Their journey soon becomes a quest for origins - weaving myths, ancient philosophy, and natural history with fleeting moments of contemporary life.
This wide-ranging overview of the turbulent and little-known history of the diverse Latino experience in America is based on hundreds of interviews and research about the fastest-growing minority in America. |
