Monica Gomez-Hira’s debut YA novel, Once Upon A Quinceañera, explores the ways in which a quinceañera can make, break, and shake families together and apart. Carmen Aguilar is an 18-year-old teenager working an unpaid internship as a party princess impersonator…
Book Review: Never Look Back by Lilliam Rivera
Never Look Back by Lilliam Rivera sparks new life and culture into the tale of Orpheus and Eurydice by framing it as a love letter to Puerto Rico. The book follows Pheus, a Black Domincan teenager with a passion for…
Book Review: Running by Natalia Sylvester
What would you do if your father was running for president, but going against everything you stood for? In Running by Natalia Sylvester, Mariana Ruiz or Mari to her friends, is a Cuban American high schooler who finds herself at…
Book Review: Incendiary by Zoraida Córdova
Take a break from the reality and enter the electrifying world of Incendiary by Zoraida Córdova. Based in 15th century during the Spanish Inquisition, this book springs into action from the very first page and takes the reader on a…
In Response to ‘American Dirt’: Own Voices Stories You Should Read Instead
Since its release, American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins has been the subject of controversy and a lot of pain for the Latinx book community. American Dirt follows a Mexican woman and her son who are being chased by a cartel.…
Book Review: We Set The Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia
Tehlor Kay Mejia’s debut, We Set the Dark on Fire, is a sapphic enemies to lovers dystopian novel set in a non specific Latinx world. It’s a book about revolution, freedom and breaking the wheel. At the same time, it…