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Sandra Cisneros's Reading List

“These are not your typical war stories,” says the writer Sandra Cisneros, whose new book is “Martita, I Remember You.”

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By the Book: Sandra Cisneros (2021)

NYT By the Book column (2021-09-02).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Sherman Alexie · Buy on Amazon
""You Don't Have to Say You Love Me," memoir, Sherman Alexie"
Julia Alvarez · Buy on Amazon
""Afterlife," novel, Julia Alvarez"
Edwidge Danticat · Buy on Amazon
""Create Dangerously," essays, Edwidge Danticat (Always on my night stand)"
Joy Harjo · Buy on Amazon
""Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings," poetry, Joy Harjo (Another one I keep on my night stand all the time)"
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz · Buy on Amazon
""Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment," by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, a history of how the United States evolved to where we are as a nation besieged by gun violence."
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz · Buy on Amazon
"I loved her earlier book, "An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States"; reading it was like going back to school and gaining a new perspective of the Americas."
Rosario Castellanos · Buy on Amazon
""The Nine Guardians," by Rosario Castellanos, a beautiful novel about a village on the Mexico-Guatemala border during the turbulent power shifts of the 1930s."
Gwendolyn Brooks · Buy on Amazon
"My favorites are Gwendolyn Brooks's "Maud Martha" and Mercé Rodoreda's "The Time of the Doves," both books that deal with war"
Mercè Rodoreda · Buy on Amazon
"Mercé Rodoreda's "The Time of the Doves," both books that deal with war"
Cover of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith · Buy on Amazon
"I realized the film is the story of a girl who wants to be a writer. I read the book by Betty Smith soon after, and I've loved it ever since."
Cover of Hurricane Season
Fernanda Melchor · Buy on Amazon
""Temporada de huracánes" and its English translation, "Hurricane Season," novel, Fernanda Melchor"

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