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Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Liked the collection—strong sense of place, community, burden of expectation, generational trauma…, but told with compassion, levity and humor.

Beware That Girl by Teresa Toten

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

Los recuerdos del porvenir / Recollections of Things to Come by Elena Garro

4.75

García Márquez: Crónica de una muerte anunciada by Stephen M. Hart

5.0

A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home by Mensah Demary, Nicole Chung

reflective

3.75

The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

challenging informative sad medium-paced

4.75

The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson

informative medium-paced

4.5

Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Shana Knizhnik, Irin Carmon

informative

4.0

The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0