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New Latinx and Hispanic Studies Titles from Penguin Random House
By Spenser Stevens | March 7 2024 | General
Finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction • “A searing account of grief and the quest to bring her sister’s murderer to justice years after the fact” (The Boston Globe), from “one of Mexico’s greatest living writers” (Jonathan Lethem).
- English > Comparative Literature: Latin American and Caribbean > Mexican
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Latin American Literature and Drama
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Latin American Studies
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Women's and Gender Studies > Gender and Violence
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Women's and Gender Studies > Sociology of Women
- Sociology > Criminal Justice > Introduction to Criminology
- Sociology > Family > Sociology of Family
- Sociology > Race / Class / Gender > Gender Studies
- Sociology > Social Problems > Social Problems
- Sociology > Social Problems > Violence and Abuse
- Criminal Justice > Introduction to Criminal Justice
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A searing memoir that explores the institutions that defined a Puerto Rican woman and what she unlearned to rediscover herself • “A lushly written, deeply felt investigation into the meanings of home, lineage and selfhood.” —Melissa Febos, bestselling author of Body Work and Girlhood
- English > Comparative Literature > Politics and Literature
- English > Comparative Literature: American > Latino/a and Chicano/a Fiction
- English > Comparative Literature: Latin American and Caribbean > South American
- English > Literature > American Literature – Latino American
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Latin American Studies
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In this debut novel, Clyo Mendoza, a young, award-winning Mexican poet and novelist, weaves together multiple narratives into a lyrical, shape-shifting existential reflection on love, violence, and the power of myth.
- English > Comparative Literature > Literature by Women
- English > Comparative Literature: Latin American and Caribbean > Mexican
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Latin American Literature and Drama
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Latin American Studies
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