Latino USA: A Cartoon History
8 best books like Latino USA: A Cartoon History (Ilan Stavans): The Wretched of the Earth, A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return, A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge, Bluets, The Good Rain: Across Time & Terrain in the Pacific Northwest, Your Blues Ain't Like Mine, The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel, Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life
The Wretched of the Earth
| Author | Frantz Fanon |
| ISBN | 0802141323 |
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanon's masterwork is a classic alongside Edward Said's Orientalism...
A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return
| Author | Zeina Abirached |
| ISBN | 0761385681 |
When Zeina was born, the civil war in Lebanon had been going on for six years, so it's just a normal part of life for her and her parents and little brother. The city of Beirut is cut in two, separated by bricks and sandbags and threatened by snipers and shelling. East Beirut is for Christians, and West Beirut...
| Author | Josh Neufeld |
| ISBN | 0307378144 |
A stunning graphic novel that makes plain the undeniable horrors and humanity triggered by Hurricane Katrina in the true stories of six New Orleanians who survived the storm.
A.D. follows each of the six from the hours before Katrina struck to its horrific aftermath. Here is Denise, a sixth-generation...
| Author | Maggie Nelson |
| ISBN | 1933517409 |
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color...
A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets, Maggie Nelson has entered the pantheon of brilliant...
| Author | Timothy Egan |
| ISBN | 0679734856 |
Personally I found this book created the seminal event that influenced the remaining course of my life; both as a lifelong resident of Washington State, and particularly as an Aquatic Scientist. My work has caused me to travel many parts of Washington State that Timothy Egan mentions in this book, so...
| Author | Bebe Moore Campbell |
| ISBN | 0345401123 |
Now, in her first novel, repercussions are felt for decades in a dozen lives after a racist beating turns to cold-blooded murder in a small 1950s Mississippi town.
Chicago-born Amrstrong Tood is fifteen, black, and unused to the ways of the segregated Deep South, when his mother sends him to...
The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel
Everything Handmaids wear is red: the colour of blood, which defines us.
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships. She serves in the household of the Commander and his wife, and under the new social order...
Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life
'A truly transformative read' Sunday Times STYLE
'More than ever, we need books like this' Jessica Seaton, Co-Founder of Toast and author of Gather, Cook, Feast
A whole new way of looking at the world - and your life - inspired by centuries-old Japanese wisdom.
Wabi sabi ("wah-bi sah-bi") is a...
