Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa
7 best books like Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa (Rigoberto González): Always Running, White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son, Juliet Takes a Breath, True West, Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality, The Black Girl Next Door: A Memoir, Bad Man
| Author | Luis J. Rodríguez |
| ISBN | 0743276914 |
The award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member surviving the dangerous streets of East Los Angeles, now featuring a new introduction by the author.
Winner of the Carl Sandburg Literary Award, hailed as a New York Times notable book, and read by hundreds...
White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son
| Author | Tim Wise |
| ISBN | 1932360689 |
In White Like Me, Tim Wise offers a highly personal examination of the ways in which racial privilege shapes the lives of most white Americans, overtly racist or not, to the detriment of people of color, themselves, and society. The book shows the breadth and depth of the phenomenon within institutions...
Juliet Milagros Palante is leaving the Bronx and headed to Portland, Oregon. She just came out to her family and isn’t sure if her mom will ever speak to her again. But Juliet has a plan, sort of, one that’s going to help her figure out this whole “Puerto Rican lesbian” thing. She’s interning...
| Author | Sam Shepard |
| ISBN | 0573617287 |
This American classic explores alternatives that might spring from the demented terrain of the California landscape. Sons of a desert dwelling alcoholic and a suburban wanderer clash over a film script. Austin, the achiever, is working on a script he has sold to producer Sal Kimmer when Lee, a demented...
Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality
| Author | Gloria E. Anzaldúa |
| ISBN | 0822359774 |
Written during the last decade of her life, Light in the Dark represents the culmination of Gloria E. Anzaldúa's mature thought and the most comprehensive presentation of her philosophy. Throughout, Anzaldúa weaves personal narratives into deeply engaging theoretical readings to comment on...
The Black Girl Next Door: A Memoir
| Author | Jennifer Baszile |
| ISBN | 1416543279 |
"A powerful, beautifully written memoir about coming of age as a black girl in an exclusive white suburb in "integrated," post-Civil Rights California in the 1970s and 1980s."At six years of age, after winning a foot race against a white classmate, Jennifer Baszile was humiliated to hear her classmate...
Reddit horror sensation Dathan Auerbach delivers a devilishly dark novel about a young boy who goes missing, and the brother who won't stop looking for him.
Eric disappeared when he was three years old. Ben looked away for only a second at the grocery store, but that was all it took. His brother...
