Hispanic Heritage Month Book Recommendations

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month by reading Hispanic literary authors in the collection.  Some featured works in the current display are:

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

This is the author's epic tale of seven generations of the Buendía family that also spans a hundred years of turbulent Latin American history, from the postcolonial 1820s to the 1920s. Patriarch José Arcadio Buendía builds the utopian city of Macondo in the middle of a swamp.  ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA

Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia

Of Women and Salt is a tale of family legacy that juxtaposes the story of four generations of matrilineal descendants in a Cuban family spanning 150 years with the experiences of a lone Salvadoran mother and daughter caught up in the bureaucracy and dehumanization of modern-day US deportation. NEW YORK JOURNAL OF BOOKS

The Lady Matador’s Hotel by Christina Garcia

Six characters in an unnamed tropical city consider matters of life and death, sex and politics, in a brief, intense, imperfectly resolved chronicle of overlapping destinies. KIRKUS REVIEWS

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, is a wonderful story about a wealthy family from the Dominican Republic that is forced to abandon the lives they know and move to New York City. This book is extra unique because it is told in reverse time order following the lives of the four Garcia sisters. RAISE THE BAR LIBRARY BOOK DISCUSSION GUIDE

Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig

Kiss of the Spider Woman is a mysterious, formally inventive, beguiling work about two prisoners during the Dirty War in Argentina: a Marxist guerilla named Valentín and a gay window dresser named Molina, who develop a transformative relationship as the latter narrates the plots of his favorite movies to the former. Isaac Butler, “Kiss of the Spider Woman’s Voices in the Dark,” NEW YORKER MAGAZINE, December 11, 2022.