The
Latina Book Club is Celebrating Cuba this week.
Check
out these books from Cuban American writers and / or with Cuban American
protagonists.
There is a book for everyone from fiction to biographies to
children’s books to romance to young adult.
Note
this list is by no means complete, but it will get you started. Happy Reading!
BOOKS
BY CUBAN AMERICAN WRITERS
1. A CUP OF WATER UNDER MY BED by Daisy Hernández (Beacon Press)
2. BURN
BABY BURN by Meg Medina (Candlewick)
3. CUBA
IN SPLINTERS: 11 STORIES FROM A NEW CUBA edited by Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo (OR
Books)
4. CUBAN-AMERICAN,
DANCING ON THE HYPHEN by Amarilys Gacio Rassler (SPS Publications)
5. DALIA’S
WONDROUS HAIR by Laura Lacámara (Piňata Books/ Arte Publico Press)
6. EVERYONE
LEAVES by Wendy Guerra (Amazon Crossing)
7. HOW
TO LEAVE HIALEAH by Jennine Capó Crucet (St. Martin’s Press)
9. LETTERS
FROM HEAVEN by Lydia Gil (Piňata Books/ Arte Publico Press)
10. MORTIFICTIONS
by Derek Palacio (Tim Duggan Books)
11. SOFRITO
by Philippe Diederich (Cinco Punto Press)
12. DREAMING IN CUBAN by Cristina Garcia (Ballantine Books)
13. THE DISTANT MARVELS by Chantel Acevedo (Europe Editions)
14. THE MAMBO
KINGS PLAY SONGS OF LOVE by Oscar Hijuelos (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
15. THE
POET SLAVE OF CUBA: A BIOGRAPHY OF JUAN FRANCISCO MANZANO by Margarita Engle
(Macmillan)
16. THE
PRINCE OF LOS COCUYOS by Richard Blanco (Ecco Press)
17. THE SKINNY YEARS by Raul Ramos y Sanchez (Beck & Branch Publishers)
18. TO
LOVE AND SERVE (The Calling is Reborn series) by Caridad Pineiro (CreateSpace)
19. WE
CAME ALL THE WAY FROM CUBA SO YOU COULD DRESS LIKE THIS? by Achy Obejas
(Cleis
Press)
20. WHITELIGHT by Vanessa Garcia (Shade Mountain Press)
READ
LATINO!
