Patricia Engel's Reading List

"I recently reread Edwidge Danticat's "The Art of Death," an extraordinary exploration of ways we make meaning from death both in life and in literature. It was even more revelatory reading it from this point in the pandemic."

"C.S. Lewis's "A Grief Observed." It was one of a few books that helped me articulate the recent loss of a loved one."

"One of my favorite books that many have heard of and love well, but maybe less so outside of Latin America so it's one I often recommend, is "In the Beginning Was the Sea," by Tomás González. It's beautiful, compact, and shocks at every turn."

"Among those, the ones I pick up most frequently are "Paula," by Isabel Allende, given to me by my mother"

""Man's Search for Meaning," by Viktor E. Frankl, given to me by my father."