Days of Obligation: An Argument With My Mexican Father

10 best books like Days of Obligation: An Argument With My Mexican Father (Richard Rodríguez): The Line Becomes A River: Dispatches from the Border, Disappearing Earth, Ordinary Girls, Lady Audley's Secret, Ceremony, Build Yourself a Boat, Dry Lips Oughta Move To Kapuskasing, George Washington Gomez: A Mexicotexan Novel, "With His Pistol in His Hand": A Border Ballad and Its Hero, Rivals! Frenemies Who Changed the World

The Line Becomes A River: Dispatches from the Border

Author

Francisco Cantú

For Francisco Cantú, the border is in the blood: his mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the scrublands of the Southwest. Haunted by the landscape of his youth, Cantú joins the Border Patrol. He and his partners are posted to remote regions crisscrossed by drug routes...

Disappearing Earth

Author

Julia Phillips

For fans of Anthony Marra's A Constellation of Vital Phenomena and Téa Obreht's The Tiger's Wife: the kidnapping of two small girls on a remote peninsula in Russia sets in motion an evocative, moving, searingly original debut novel by a dazzling young writer.

One August afternoon, on the...

Ordinary Girls

Author	Jaquira Díaz
ISBN	1616209135

“There is more life packed on each page of Ordinary Girls than some lives hold in a lifetime.” —Julia Alvarez

Ordinary Girls is a fierce, beautiful, and unflinching memoir from a wildly talented debut author. While growing up in housing projects in Puerto Rico and Miami Beach, Jaquira...

Lady Audley's Secret

Author	Mary Elizabeth Braddon
ISBN	0192835203

whatever could be Lady Audley's secret? could it be... murder? miscegenation? malfeasance? misdirected malevolence ending in tears, tragedy, and general tawdriness? an assumed identity? flatulence? that not-so-fresh feeling? bigamy? bigotry? child abuse? child abandonment? une affaire...

Ceremony

Author	Leslie Marmon Silko
ISBN	0140086838

Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the horrors of captivity have almost eroded his will to survive. His return to the Laguna Pueblo reservation only increases his feeling of estrangement and alienation. While other returning soldiers find easy...

Build Yourself a Boat

Author	Camonghne Felix
ISBN	1608466116

2019 National Book Award Longlist

A poetic exploration of trauma, healing, and survival from award-winning poet Camonghne Felix.

"With Build Yourself a Boat, Camonghne Felix heralds a thrillingly new form of storytelling, as much investigation as it is song, as broken as it is...

Dry Lips Oughta Move To Kapuskasing

Author	Tomson Highway
ISBN	0920079555

Nominee, Governor General's Literary Award for Drama Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing tells another story of the mythical Wasaychigan Hill Indian Reserve, also the setting for Tomson Highway's award winning play The Rez Sisters. Wherein The Rez Sisters the focus was on seven Wasy women and...

George Washington Gomez: A Mexicotexan Novel

Author	Américo Paredes
ISBN	1558850120

In the 1930's, Americo Paredes, the renowned folklorist, wrote a novel set to the background of the struggles by Texas Mexicans to preserve their property, culture, and identity in the face of Anglo-American migration to and growing dominance over the Rio Grande Valley. For his epic novel Paredes...

"With His Pistol in His Hand": A Border Ballad and Its Hero

Author	Américo Paredes
ISBN	0292701284

Gregorio Cortez Lira, a ranchhand of Mexican parentage, was virtually unknown until one summer day in 1901 when he and a Texas sheriff, pistols in hand, blazed away at each other after a misunderstanding. The sheriff was killed and Gregorio fled immediately, realizing that in practice there was one...

Rivals! Frenemies Who Changed the World

Author

Scott McCormick

"Each volume of four 30-minute histories will dig into the petty name-calling and grumbling grudges that led to many of the world's greatest advancements, all delivered with a cheeky sense of humor."

Did you know that most of our dinosaur fossils were discovered because two grown men absolutely...