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This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz

04 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Caribbean American, Fiction, Short Stories

Thus far, mega-award winning Junot Díaz (also recently bestowed the "Genius" moniker by the MacArthur Foundation) hasn't written a book without his sort-of autobiographical stand-in Yunior de las Casas. Díaz's 1996 fiction debut, Drown, introduced Yunior through interlinked short stories; a decade-plus later, Díaz turned over full narrative control to his...

Conquistadora by Esmeralda Santiago

29 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Caribbean American, Fiction, Latina/o/x, Puerto Rican

I think I must have been a Boricua in a former life. I can't seem to stay away too long from La Isla del Encanto (especially my favorite Isla Culebrita), and I get the fiercest cravings for Bebo's and mofongo (it's all about a full...

The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano by Sonia Manzano

21 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Caribbean, Caribbean American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Puerto Rican, Young Adult Readers

Not to confuse anyone, but I have to start with p. 177 because that's where you'll find a reference to "that cool new show Sesame Street" (which debuted 1969), because first-time novelist Sonia Manzano has been playing Sesame Street's Maria for the last 30+ years! While the title...

Sélavi, That is Life: A Haitian Story of Hope by Youme, with an essay by Edwidge Danticat

29 May, by SIBookDragon in Caribbean, Caribbean American, Children/Picture Books, Haitian, Haitian American, Nonfiction

The first thing you need to know is that this story is real. And although it was first published eight years ago – and six years before the tragic January 12, 2010 Haitian earthquake – Sélavi is an even more urgent call for help for Haiti's children. A...

A Wedding in Haiti by Julia Alvarez [in Christian Science Monitor]

26 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Caribbean, Caribbean American, Haitian, Latina/o/x, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost

Neither Julia Alvarez nor her husband Bill can remember exactly when she fell in love with a Haitian boy named Piti. But both distinctly recall the first meeting, which happened in 2001 on one of their many trips to Alvarez’s native Dominican Republic. “[S]hort and...

Return to Sender by Julia Alvarez

08 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Caribbean American, Fiction, Latina/o/x, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers

Here's a rather unique literary coincidence: Julia Alvarez's Finding Miracles ends with an uncle missing the grandmother's wedding because of hemorrhoid surgery. Return to Sender begins with the mention of another uncle (in a totally unrelated story) suffering through a hemorrhoid operation. Try and find two...

Finding Miracles by Julia Alvarez

02 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Caribbean American, Fiction, Latina/o/x, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers

Sandwiched between sister Kate and brother Nate, Milly Kaufman is the only adopted child of their Jewish father and Mormon mother. She began life with the name Milagros (as in 'miracles'), until she was claimed as an infant by parents working with the Peace Corps...

Stir It Up by Ramin Ganeshram

17 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Caribbean American, Fiction, Indian American, Young Adult Readers

Food writer Ramin Ganeshram shares her Indo-Caribbean culinary prowess in her debut title for younger readers about eighth-grader Anjali Krishnan who really knows how to stir things up ...

Drown by Junot Díaz

03 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Caribbean American, Fiction, Short Stories

Talk about a surprisingly fortuitous bonus: If you get the audible version of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, included in the deal is Junot Díaz's debut title, Drown, a collection of 10 mostly-related short stories. That both Díaz titles are read with such fluency...

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

02 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Caribbean American, Fiction

Here are a few new things I learned from Junot Díaz's 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winner that many of you already read long ago ...

Eight Days: A Story of Haiti by Edwidge Danticat, illustrated by Alix Delinois

30 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Black/African American, Caribbean, Caribbean American, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Haitian, Haitian American

This has been one tragic week: the deadly Oaxaca, Mexico mudslide, the two Rutgers freshmen whose abusively invasive actions led to the suicide of a third first-year student, the deaths of iconic actor Tony Curtis and director Arthur Penn ...

I and I: Bob Marley by Tony Medina, illustrated by Jesse Joshua Watson

05 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Biography, Black/African American, Caribbean American, Children/Picture Books, Nonfiction, Poetry

A gorgeously rendered collection of poems that capture the colorful life of Nesta Robert Marley, born in 1945 to a young island girl just 18 and a 63-year-old British white man in a small town in Jamaica. Although his father quickly abandoned the young family,...

Brother, I’m Dying by Edwidge Danticat [in San Francisco Chronicle]

10 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Black/African American, Caribbean, Caribbean American, Haitian, Haitian American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost

brother-im-dying1 Something magical happens when prize-winning novelist Edwidge Danticat strings words together. From the most trivial details to breathtaking moments of enormous gravity, Danticat uses words as charms that gently beckon readers into her world and make...

He Drown She in the Sea by Shani Mootoo [in AsianWeek]

04 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Caribbean American, Fiction, Repost, South Asian American

He Drown She in the Sea This one is just delicious – and delightfully plotted as to how it plays with time and place and people. The beginning: a man, a woman,...

The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat + Author Interview [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Black/African American, Caribbean, Caribbean American, Fiction, Haitian, Haitian American, Repost

dew-breaker Horror, Hope & Redemption: A Talk with Edwidge Danticat About Her Latest Novel, The Dew Breaker When I mention to a dear friend in England, who happens to be an excellent fiction writer herself, that I’m preparing...

Series Profile: First Person Fiction [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Author Interview/Profile, Black/African American, Cambodian American, Caribbean, Caribbean American, Fiction, Haitian, Haitian American, Korean American, Latina/o/x, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Southeast Asian, Young Adult Readers

first-person-fiction Behind the Mountains by Edwidge Danticat Flight to Freedom by Ana Veciana-Suarez Finding My Hat by John Son The Stone Goddess by Minfong Ho With the exception of the Native Americans—and some may still argue that they walked over the...

House of Waiting by Marina Tamar Budhos [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

02 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Caribbean American, Fiction, Indian American, Jewish, Repost, South Asian American

House of Waiting Sarah, a young and naive New York Jew, impulsively marries Roland, an Indian immigrant from the Caribbean. Months after the wedding, Roland returns to his native Guiana, embroiled in its political turmoil....

A Feather on the Breath of God by Sigrid Nunez [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

02 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Caribbean American, Chinese American, European, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Repost

Feather on the Breath of God A young woman, the child of a Chinese Panamanian father and a German mother, grows up in New York housing projects trying to make sense of...

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