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What a beautiful and heartbreaking collection of Latiné stories and voices. These stories are a perfect example of how latinidad is not a monolith and while weay share in some things like language and culture it's not the same. All experiences are different, dialects, language, culture and so many more aspects that make up is are all so different. I absolutely adore these stories and highly recommend listening to the audiobook and getting to experience each author narrating their own story.

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challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective

5.0

This was a wonderful collection of authors (some new to me, some I've read before) that explore Latinx identity. I really wish I had a book like this when I was a teenager - it definitely helped me as a person in their late 20s. These essays were sometimes harsh, but mostly like a warm hug you didn't know you needed.

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challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

This essay collection of 15 Latinx creatives in the diaspora really makes you sit and just reflect on all they are sharing about their experiences with racism, colorism, feeling of othering within the community, hurt by family, but also joy, love, community and grief.

This book is for the Latiné people in the diaspora to be able to connect with their communities and share experiences. It's also a glimpse for non-Latiné people to get a look into some of the lived experiences these 15 people have gone through as they deal with everything from Anti- Blackness to Love and Community in Cooking. For me, it also had me sitting in my thoughts on the roll that my witness has played in the harm to them through white supremacy. This book moved me to feel anger, tears, pride and happiness.

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challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective

4.5

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hopeful inspiring reflective

This is an amazing collection of short stories! I am currently on the journey of reading books that share stories similar to my upbringing and give me more insight into my culture. This was an amazing way to start off and I enjoyed this so much I want to hunt down a physical copy for my personal library! Highly highly recommend!!

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emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

This is a great book of short stories to read if you’re looking to learn how to be more knowledgeable about what it means to be Afro-Latinx and to avoid being racist or exclusive of people who don’t look like you, but don’t fit into the rigid molds we have for placing people based on skin color. The 15 short stories are super varied and come from all different backgrounds, but the constant theme is acceptance.

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