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Hispanic Voices in Fiction
All titles shelved in Fiction collection, except as noted: SS= short story collection.
Anthologies
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General Fiction
- Abella, Alex
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(2000)A Cuban-American lawyer and author, who made his first appearance in Abella's The Killing of the Saints, is on the run from a murder charge involving the ritual slayings of two women.
- Boullosa, Carmen
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(2001)A young woman begins a search for her missing father and is faced with difficult choices.
- Candela, Margo
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(2007)More than a year after her divorce, Jacquelyn Sanchez finds herself tangled in relationships she knows her therapist would not approve of. Her traditional Mexican-American family is scandalized at the unapologetic way Jacqs lives her life, but it doesn't worry her, at least not most of the time.
- Chavez, Denise
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(2001)A lovelorn Chicana woman, Teresina, becomes obsessed with the Mexican film star Pedro Infante.
- Diaz, Debra
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(1996)A story of the women of the Cruz family and their lives of hope in the Red Camp, once a labor camp, then a shanty town and finally a barrio.
- Diaz, Junot
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(1996)Ten stories take readers from the barrios of the Dominican Republic to the struggling urban communities of New Jersey.
- Flores, Ralph M.
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(2004)Born in 1908, two years before the start of the Mexican Revolution, Rafael lives in the village of San Cristobal, in northern Sonora, Mexico, where his father, the village comisario, owns a bar, pool hall and grocery store. Life becomes difficult, however, and Rafael must put aside his dreams and work with his brothers picking lettuce wherever laborers are needed.
- Garcia, Ricardo L.
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(2001)Set in the coalfields of northern New Mexico, this is a fictionalized version of the author's life in the last years of World War II.
- Gilb, Dagoberto
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(2001)This collection of short stories focuses on the lives of the working-class Mexican Americans in "el barrio."
- Hernandez, Jo Ann Yolanda
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(1997)When a ninth-grade Latina student wins a school spelling contest, the women in her household have mixed emotions about what the attention means to their family, friends and community.
- Herrera, Andrea O'Reilly
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(2001)This novel focuses on several generations of Cuban women and explores the ways in which culture and tradition are passed down from generation to generation.
- Islas, Arturo
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(1990)Josie Salazar and her family live in a Texas town on the border of Mexico, where cultural differences affect individuals daily.
- Lopez, Diana
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(2003)Loren Sauceda has lived in the same house where she grew up where she indulges her artistic muse by burning unique renderings of various saints onto wood. She has even managed to sell some of her work at a local flea market. However, she refuses to compromise her artistic integrity by creating more marketable work and she has little patience for those who do. Sofía's resolute philosophy begins to unravel when she learns that her beloved house is to be sold and that her only hope of buying it lies with an old coffee can filled with spare change. Forced to confront both her painful past and the seemingly inevitable loss of her old home, Sofía realizes that she must reevaluate everything.
- Martinez, Manuel Luis
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(1998)A teenage boy leaves Mexico to seek his fortune in the United States.
- Martinez, Manuel Luis
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(2003)This is a fierce and lyrical novel, set in the barrios of San Antonio and Los Angeles, that provides a vision of the menace of adolescence, the hard edge of physical labor and the debts owed to family.
- Menendez, Ana
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(2001)This is a debut collection of linked tales about the attempts of immigrants to make new lives in America.
- Menendez, Ana
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(2003)A missing mother, a mysterious parcel of old letters and a young woman in search of her roots reveal an astonishing story of a woman's affair with Che Guevara and an intimate portrait of revolutionary Cuba and Cubans in exile.
- Mireles, Jovita Gonzalez
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(2000)These thirty stories represent the history and culture of south Texas at the beginning of the twentieth century.
- Mujica, Barbara Louise
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(2000)This fictionalized biography is told from the viewpoint of Frida Kahlo's sister. The novel focuses on the life and times of Kahlo and her husband, the muralist, Diego Rivera.
- Pineda, Cecile
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(2004)Originally published by Viking in 1985, Face was the first novel by a U.S. Latina writer to come from a major American publishing house since the 19th century. Out of print for a decade, this expanded edition of Face contains a foreword by Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee, an introduction by noted scholar Dr. Juan Bruce-Novoa and a new Author's Note. Face considers the question, "If we don't have a face, do we have an identity?" through the experiences of Helio Cara whose facial features are essentially obliterated in an accident. The book garnered an American Book Award Nomination, the Gold Metal from the Commonwealth Club and the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
- Quiñonez, Ernesto
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(2000)The story of a young man's coming of age in Spanish Harlem.
- Rivera, Beatriz
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(2000)Rebecca Barrios, a Miami housewife, attempts to revive the old Cuban tradition of the tertulia, or women's get together.
- Romo, Ito
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(2000)This story cycle brings together the intertwining stories of women living on either side of the Tex Mex border.
- Santana, Patricia
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(2002)The Vietnam war has changed the brother of 14-year-old Yolanda Shagun but his transformation is not the only challenge the family faces in this coming-of-age novel, winner of the 1999 Chicano/Latino Literary award.
- Smith, Michael
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(1996)These 18 stories are based on true events surrounding Central American immigrants and their flight from their homelands to seek asylum in the United States.
- Soto, Gary
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(2001)The career of author Silver Mendez has been going steadily downhill, but a letter from Spain inviting him to a conference on Chicano literature may change his luck.
- Trujillo, Carla Mari
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(2003)What Night Brings focuses on a Chicano working-class family living in California during the 1960s. Marci tells the story with the wisdom of somecone twice her age as she determines to defy her family and God in order to find her identity, sexuality and freedom.
- Valdes-Rodriguez, Alisa
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(2003)Lauren, Rebecca, Elizabeth, Sara, Amber and Usnavys have been friends for the past decade, since their days at Boston University. They're all Latina, but they're as varied as the culture itself, representing different shapes, sizes, religions, ethnicities and skin tones. Their approach to being Latina is diverse, too, ranging from denial to cultural confusion to ultra-militancy. As close as sisters, these young women meet every six months in Boston and discuss their problems and their triumphs, but it is their unspoken secrets that add the edge to their relationships.
- Villatoro, Marcos McPeek
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(2001)Rookie homicide detective Romilia Chacon, new to Nashville, is assigned her first murder case.
- Yglesias, Jose
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(2000, c. 1974)An internationally celebrated journalist agrees to run a clandestine illegal errand on behalf of MIRA (Movimiento de la Isquierda Revolucionario Armado).