A review by stompyboots
The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature by

5.0

Incredibly broad in scope and deep in content. The authors in this anthology write about universal human struggles over secularism, religiosity, resistance, assimilation, migrating to a new place, being at home in an old place, love, death... Sometimes when we talk about what it "means" to be Latinx, we fall into traps that diminish our selves within a few narrow boundaries as a reaction to colonization... rather than expanding our selves outward. Reading this anthology is good medicine for folks of all backgrounds.

This is my one "desert island" book-- yes, partly because it's 2,489 pages-- but more importantly because it contains so much humanity and memory.