Support independent literary publishers by picking a read from the list below, which features new books published in October 2024 from CLMP members.
No One Knows Their Blood Type by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat
Translated from the Arabic by Hazem Jamjoum
Cleveland State University Poetry Center | October 1, 2024
This “novel of Palestine centers its narrative not on the battlefield of history, but on how women live every day and the colonial context of their embodied lives.”
I want to start by saying by Samuel Ace
Cleveland State University Poetry Center | October 1, 2024
This collection of essay, memoir, and collage is “a constellation of memory, personal and place-based histories, dailiness, repetition, art-making, and desire.”
Blindspot in America by Elom K. Akoto
Red Hen Press | October 1, 2024
This novel “gives a provocative depiction of some of the realities immigrants face in the United States—racism and discrimination—but also their hopes and faith in a country that promises freedom and opportunity to all.”
American Muse: Starlite Pulp Novellas
Starlite Pulp | October 1, 2024
This collection of novellas features “two dark westerns by Brian Townsley and Jean-Paul L. Granier, and two gritty crime yarns by Manny Torres and Alex Slusar, all thematically linked by the search for the American Dream.”
Consider the Rooster by Oliver Baez Bendorf
Nightboat Books | October 1, 2024
Baez Bendorf’s third collection “resounds through liminal spaces, at dusk and dawn, across personal meditations and wider cultural awakenings to form a collection overflowing with freedom, rebellion, mischief, and song.”
Gwenda, Rodney by Olivia Cronk
Meekling Press | October 1, 2024
This is an “exquisitely genre-ambiguous” book “about reading novels, ekphrasis, and the gaze, transcribed in a mode as ethereal as air filling a garment left to hang.”
Middle Creek Publishing & Audio | October 1, 2024
Set against the background of seasonal drama in the bird world, Davis’s novella “embodies the visceral response—angst and exasperating sense of helplessness inflamed by the distance between the will of the people and our national policy, and the bewilderment we feel—to the barbaric violence and violations of human rights happening in Ukraine.”
Becoming a Good Relative: Calling White Settlers Toward Truth, Healing, and Repair by Hilary Giovale
Green Writers Press | October 1, 2024
This book “weaves the author’s personal story of transformation with historical research, spiritual teachings, and an appendix of practical skills, resources, and rituals.”
Green Writers Press | October 1, 2024
Hart’s eco-novel “illuminates the spiritual connectedness of chance occurrences and weaves a powerful tale of strife, introspection, and reclamation.”
Exit Garden State by John Hennessy
Lost Horse Press | October 1, 2024
The speakers of these poems “explore the knots of familial experience, what it’s like to be both parent and child simultaneously, to be embraced by family as well as to lose it, to celebrate kinship and endure its sorrows and changes.”
Empty Me Full by Catherine Abbey Hodges
Gunpowder Press | October 1, 2024
According to Donna Spruijt-Metz, Abbey Hodges “tenderly interrogates the workings of time,” traveling “with remarkable ease through the liminal corridors between life and death, how we remember, and what we can know.”
Television Fathers by Sylvia Jones
Meekling Press | October 1, 2024
In this debut collection, Jones is “simultaneously reimagining the past and reveling in the absurd contemporary—her gaze never straying from social inequity, nor from the personal scales of fate.”
The Naomi Poems: Corpse and Beans by Bill Knott
Black Ocean | October 1, 2024
This new edition of The Naomi Poems brings the collection back into print after almost 60 years and features a new introduction by Richard Hell.
The Analog Body by Alexander Laurence
Tofu Ink Arts Press | October 1, 2024
According to Jack Skelley, Laurence’s poetry collection “compiles decades of dreamscapes, deft allusions to the literary-pop canon and cubist-punk lab tests that go Ka-BLAM!”
The Majuscule Reader: The Best of the First Five Years
Majuscule | October 1, 2024
This collection brings together 18 essays from the first 5 years of Majuscule’s existence on subjects “as varied as animation, corsetry, bulimia, Janet Malcolm, experimental storytelling, and reborn internet dolls.”
Book*hug Press | October 1, 2024
This hybrid work of lyrical essays, prose poetry, photographs, and more “captures the wrenching feeling of loss of control in the face of an overwhelming medical diagnosis and the small, endless moments in life that underscore it.”
The Ogre’s Grimoire: Three Years of Red Ogre Review
Red Ogre Review | October 1, 2024
This collection collects Red Ogre Review’s first three years of poetry spanning magazine issues from October 2021 through September 2024.
A History of Echoes by Rod Carlos Rodriguez
Gival Press | October 1, 2024
According to Mihir Shah, in this book Rodriguez “preserves the rich history of Taíno culture with incredible tact and tenacity in a compilation that is a clinic on narrative poetry.”
Army of Giants by Matthew Rohrer
Wave Books | October 1, 2024
This collection of poems is a “diverse meditation on the ways in which the physical world intersects, overlaps, and informs the universe of the imagination.”
Storytellers’ True Stories about Family
Chicago Story Press | October 1, 2024
This anthology of stories explores the many dimensions of family life, “whether it’s the joy of reconnecting with long-lost relatives, the strength found in supporting a loved one through illness, or the lessons learned from family conflicts and reconciliation.”
Ribcage of Time by Jacqueline Tchakalian
Red Hen Press | October 1, 2024
Tchakalian’s second poetry collection “is both intimate and universal in its scope of events—family life, birth, death, rape, abortion, genocide from a poet on the ledge of some eighty years of life with language fresh and unsettling.”
The Book of Losman by K. E. Semmel
Santa Fe Writers Project | October 2, 2024
The titular character of this novel “learns of a new drug designed to locate the root of his Tourette through childhood memories,” is “lured by promises of a cure and visits the mysterious lab that developed the drug.”
The Language of Light by Nancy Thomas
Fernwood Press | October 2, 2024
In these poems, Thomas “plays with common figures of speech in the English language, celebrates relationships with peculiar people, and attempts to approach growing older with courage and humor.”
The Escapades by Marie-Noëlle Agniau
Translated from the French by Jesse Hover Amar
World Poetry Books | October 3, 2024
Agniau’s English-language debut is a “surreal and haunting work of transfiguration and rupture inspired by Ovid’s Ocyrhoe.”
Ronsdale Press | October 4, 2024
Grundy’s memoir tells the story of “a caregiver’s lifelong struggle to break through the barrier of her sibling’s mental illness in search of sisterhood.”
Collected Poems by Gerard Fanning
Wake Forest University Press | October 7, 2024
This collection of Fanning’s four published books and one previously unpublished collection is “dense with allusions to American music and contemporary cinema, and equally attentive to Ireland’s eastern and western seascapes.”
Gay Poetics of the Passion by Luis Lopez-Maldonado
FlowerSong Press | October 7, 2024
Lopez-Maldonado’s “complex collection of poemas and gay prayers” blends “genders, sexes, races, classes, and verdades to create an over-satisfying fruit-smoothie intended to fill, over-fill, and spill.”
Among the Crags of the Eyrie by Daniel Shapiro
Dos Madres Press | October 7, 2024
According to Anthony Seidman, Shapiro “deftly showcases poems of personal experience alongside more hermetic and shorter verse, yet it is his assured voice that sweeps us up in his legacy of wind, sabbath wine, savannahs, even the Ostriches of Pasadena from yesteryear.”
Desire/Halves by Jai Hamid Bashir
Nine Syllables Press | October 8, 2024
Bashir’s debut collection “navigates between English, Urdu, and Spanish, examining the interplay of these languages and the experience of being Pakistani-American.”
Translated from the French by Susan Ouriou
Book*hug Press | October 8, 2024
Britt’s novel “asks what happens when one can no longer play a role—whether in a couple, family, or social structure—and exposes the resulting friction between pleasure and consequence.”
Coming Out Like a Porn Star: Essays on Pornography, Protection, and Privacy
Feminist Press | October 8, 2024
Edited by Jiz Lee and originally published in 2015, the second edition of this anthology “includes new essays that explore issues transforming the modern porn field” and “a panoramic view of the world of sex work that has been described in recent years by Melissa Febos, Margo Steines, Charlotte Shane, and Michelle Tea.”
Green Writers Press | October 8, 2024
According to Dzvinia Orlowsky, deNiord’s collection “points us past near-elegiac compassion toward a belief in infinite, beautiful sanctuaries.”
The Propagandist by Cécile Desprairies
Translated from the French by Natasha Lehrer
New Vessel Press | October 8, 2024
According to Ruth Ben-Ghiat, this “haunting autobiographical novel shows that the Nazi occupation of France is not an event in the distant past but part of family histories and memories that still go unspoken.”
Deena Undone by Debra K. Every
Woodhall Press | October 8, 2024
According to S. T. Joshi, this horror novel’s supernatural motif is “incorporated into a broader tale of searing domestic conflict fueled by love, betrayal, and hatred.”
Nightboat Books | October 8, 2024
Pre-dating the British Sexual Offences Act of 1967, Hyatt’s novel “is a portrait of London’s Soho that is now lost, an important document of queer working-class life from a voice long overlooked.”
Little Ones by Grey Wolfe LaJoie
Hub City Press | October 8, 2024
Informed by “Appalachian experience and traditions of Southern storytelling,” these “mischievous polyvocal tales are an exercise in audacity, in embracing the bizarre and carnivalesque within us.”
The 3rd Thing | October 8, 2024
This work of poetry and graphic narrative “conjures geographic and creative uncertainty as the necessary condition for navigating the climate crisis and its sorrows.”
The Holy & Broken Bliss by Alicia Ostriker
Alice James Books | October 8, 2024
According to Publishers Weekly, “Ostriker confronts the intricate dance between spiritual despair and revelatory beauty in her ethereal 17th collection.”
Wave Books | October 8, 2024
Rehm’s collection of lyric poems helps readers “experience a genuine devotion for both birdsong and breath, and the intimacies of thought connecting the two.”
Window over the Sink by Charles Springer
Fernwood Press | October 8, 2024
According to Michael Martone, this collection of prose poems “gives us tragedy, but also the whole Polonius litany of ‘tragical-comical-historical-pastoral-poem unlimited’ in this very real surreality.”
Beneath a Sky of Stone by E. B. Tolley
Woodhall Press | October 8, 2024
In Tolley’s debut novel, Ryan Shaw “learns that he has survived a fall of seventeen kilometers into the Earth’s crust and is trapped underground in the Republic of Inner Earth.”
Hungry Gods, and Other Matters of Conscience: Speculative Fictions by Heather Bourbeau
Fabulist Editions | October 10, 2024
These short stories show us “a revolution launched by a slice of cake; an empath trained to avenge the genocidal crimes of her ancestors; a balloon that can buoy a wounded soul into a new life of liberation.”
The Light That Burns Us by Jazra Khaleed
Translated from the Greek by Peter Constantine, Viktoras Iliopoulos, Sarah McCann, Jason Rigas, Max Ritvo, Angelos Sakkis, Josephine Simple, Brian Sneeden, and Karen Van Dyck
World Poetry Books | October 10, 2024
Khaleed’s English-language debut is “an unapologetic indictment of the wrongs faced by immigrants, by a rudderless young European generation, by leftist activists in a Greece and a Europe blighted by neoliberal policies of deregulation and privatization.”
Grid Books | October 10, 2024
In Strong’s eighteenth published book, “youth and age come into close contact and understanding, even while made to cope with the concerns of a larger world.”
Unicorn Death Moon: Paris Guidebook by Zachary Cahill
Red Ogre Review | October 11, 2024
According to Jacob Henry Leveton, Cahill’s collection of poems “marshals the imaginative to ground his reader in what is dark, fantastic, surreal, and magical.”
Near Strangers by Marian Crotty
Autumn House Press | October 11, 2024
The eight stories in Near Strangers “center on resilient female protagonists and offer a view into queer life in America outside of its major coastal cities.”
Old California Strikes Back by Scott Russell Duncan
FlowerSong Press | October 14, 2024
Russell Duncan’s book is a “magical memoir and meta-novel that chronicles the journey of its mixed-race author—SRD—as he dismantles the myths surrounding Californios and the Chicano condition.”
Deerbrook Editions | October 14, 2024
According to Arielle Greenberg, Potter’s latest poetry collection “witnesses both the partially eclipsed diurnal (laundry, litter) and the shining counter-quotidian (patience, psalms).”
The Kármán Line by Daisy Atterbury
Rescue Press | October 15, 2024
This hybrid collection “glides between off-planet simulations, uranium mining, queer erotics, military rockets, galactic zones of avoidance, and settler logics to arrive in the ‘outside of outside.’”
Regal House Publishing | October 15, 2024
Each poem in Banks’s collection “builds a history, layered like sediment, of a life of observations, of tragedy, of connection, with one inevitable conclusion.”
Deeper the Tropics by Matt Broaddus
Fonograf Editions | October 15, 2024
Broaddus’s collection presents “the self as an accumulation of faces over which we have only partial control” via persona poems, prose poems, and false translations.
The Ghost Town Collectives by Brittney Corrigan
Middle Creek Publishing & Audio | October 15, 2024
According to Peter Rock, Corrigan’s short stories collect “tales of loss—lost relationships, lost climates and landscapes, lost possibilities and yet they are always infused with hope and empathy.”
Scream Queen by Jeremy Griffin
Black Lawrence Press | October 15, 2024
Scream Queen navigates “issues of violence, spirituality, addiction, parenthood, and mortality for a clearer understanding of how our failures ultimately shape us.”
Take Me With You Next Time by Janis Hubschman
WTAW Press | October 15, 2024
The “morally complex and often wryly funny” stories in Hubschman’s debut collection feature “women held captive by misguided desire, heartbreak, and bewildering grief.”
The Village of New Ghosts by Winifred Hughes
Passager Books | October 15, 2024
According to EJ Colen, The Village of New Ghosts creates a “linguistic and emotional landscape of give and take, of push and pull, each step forward a constant realignment of understanding of nature and history, of temporality itself.”
This Ain’t No Disco: The Story of CBGB by Roman Kozak
Trouser Press Books | October 15, 2024
The new edition of this 1988 work of music history features “a new foreword by Chris Frantz of Talking Heads, 12 pages of photographs by Ebet Roberts and historical reporting about the club’s closing in 2006.”
Middle Creek Publishing & Audio | October 15, 2024
Law’s essays capture “the essence of the American wilderness with a voice that merges the precision of a journalist and the soul of a poet.”
Under This Roof by Theresa Monteiro
Fernwood Press | October 15, 2024
Monteiro’s debut collection “offers the possibility of restoration, of making peace with grief, and of forging connection in a disrupted world.”
Translated from the Swedish by Saskia Vogel
Book*hug Press | October 15, 2024
This novel is “a gothic tale set at the dawn of modern gynecology, when the female body appears as a cryptic landscape and male hubris reigns.”
apparitions (nines) by Nat Raha
Nightboat Books | October 15, 2024
Written as a series of “niners”—a poetic form consisting of nine nine-syllable lines—Raha’s collection is “a brash and subversive rejoinder to the Anglophone sonnet.”
The Song Cave | October 15, 2024
Ross’s second poetry collection chronicles “a brute education in love and decorum through ceremony starter kits, basement classrooms, and a mission school turned art camp.”
Marquee: The Story of the World’s Greatest Music Venue by Robert Sellers and Nick Pendleton
Trouser Press Books | October 15, 2024
Cowritten by the son of the founders, this illustrated book tells the club’s 30-year history through “dates, memories, wild stories, musical milestones and behind-the-scenes drama.”
A Ukrainian Dictionary of War by Ostap Slyvynsky
Translated from the Ukrainian by Grace Mahoney and Taras Malkovych
Lost Horse Press | October 15, 2024
In a dual-language format, this multi-genre book presents Slyvynsky’s efforts as a “wartime lexicographer, carefully collecting and compiling a dictionary of witness to Russia’s invasion and war against Ukraine.”
Solace by Cornelia Maude Spelman
JackLeg Press | October 15, 2024
Spelman’s memoir “unfurls in a series of vignettes drawn from diaries and personal stories about her relationship to others as daughter, mother, friend, wife, therapist, and grandmother.”
Green Writers Press | October 15, 2024
Created between 2020 and 2022, Weiss’s photographic study “speaks to the many moments of the pandemic cycle and allows the viewer to ponder those complex times and reflect on the feelings expressed.”
The Next Noise Is Our Hearts by Kathleen Willard
Middle Creek Publishing & Audio | October 15, 2024
Willard’s poetry collection “evokes an unabashed celebration of the natural world as she shares her love of bees, the northern white rhinoceros, bison, coral reefs, and whales—balanced by her poetic and science-based investigations into many environmental issues.”
Last of the Pops by Adam Wilson
Read Furiously | October 15, 2024
This graphic novel dives “into the soundtrack of a wannabe podcaster, a teen graffiti artist and her estranged brother, a former disc jockey, the newest owner of a vinyl legacy, and a tortured singer on the cusp of greatness.”
Deep & Wild: On Mountains, Opossums & Finding Your Way in West Virginia by Laura Jackson
Autumn House Press | October 18, 2024
In her debut essay collection, Jackson describes “life in West Virginia while dismantling stereotypes portrayed in popular media with humor and tenderness.”
Ronsdale Press | October 18, 2024
Spaner’s novel tells the story of a Vancouver man “shaped by the Spanish Civil War and the not-so-civil wars that go on within families and intimate relationships.”
Walking and Stealing by Stephen Cain
Book*hug Press | October 22, 2024
This collection of serial poems “considers urban affairs and culture through playful, revelatory devices.”
No More Flowers by Stephanie Cawley
Birds, LLC | October 22, 2024
The poems in this collection “believe in their ability to affect consequences with language, while being self-aware enough to know how absurd that belief is.”
Connecticut Literary Anthology
Woodhall Press | October 22, 2024
Edited by Victoria Buitron, Summer Tate, and Christine Kandic Torres, this anthology has “constellated together the best poetry, nonfiction, and prose from Connecticut writers.”
Wrong Heaven Again by Ryan Eckes
Birds, LLC | October 22, 2024
According to Laura Jaramillo, the poems in this collection “emerge from the deformation of language by landlords, administrators, and politicians who seek to dress up the daily hell into which we’ve been plunged.”
Green Writers Press | October 22, 2024
In Ellis’s speculative novel, the two protagonists “discover the key to human hibernation—but when their secret goes public, death, deception, and moral dilemmas wreak havoc on their lives.”
All We Can Do Is Name Them by Joanne Esser
Fernwood Press | October 22, 2024
According to Deborah Keenan, this poetry collection is “assured, confident, direct, far-ranging—a book written by a grown-up willing to stare at the years gone by and at the present moment.”
All the Places We Love Have Been Left in Ruins by Ariel Francisco
Translated into the Spanish by Francisco Henriquez
Burrow Press | October 22, 2024
In this bilingual collection, Francisco “mourns a Miami already ruined by climate change and development, and meditates on the future ruins of a city reclaimed by the sea.”
Belle Point Press | October 22, 2024
This poetry chapbook “pieces together one-way conversations that enter a complex world of relationships spanning several decades yet remaining tethered to revelations in ordinary places.”
Certain Shelter by Abbie Kiefer
June Road Press | October 22, 2024
Kiefer’s debut poetry collection asks, “What sources of solace and stability remain amid the ruins of industry, after the death of a parent, while raising children in an uncertain time alongside the ghosts of the past?”
Alice James Books | October 22, 2024
According to Bin Ramke, “The essential dialogic nature of this book … establishes the voices in this head, headlong encounter with the world, answering for our human failure to care properly or enough or in time.”
Material Witness by Aditi Machado
Nightboat Books | October 22, 2024
This collection is “a series of meditative long poems that ritualize perception as a way of maintaining kinship with the non-human world.”
José Martí Reader: Writings on the Americas by José Martí
Seven Stories Press | October 22, 2024
This anthology of the writing of José Martí features bilingual poetry, political essays, writings on Latin American culture, and his letters.
Hub City Press | October 22, 2024
This 250-page history book includes over 150 historic photographs and maps, telling the story of this district through “oral interviews, newspaper accounts, archival records, photographs, and personal collections.”
Dreaming in the Fault Zone: A Poetics of Healing by Eleni Stecopoulos
Nightboat Books | October 22, 2024
This book of essays is “a virtuosic inquiry into the forms and uses of healing, from ancient and modern medicine to contemporary literature, ecology, and protest.”
Inside Every Dream, a Raging Sea by Liz Worth
Book*hug Press | October 22, 2024
Inspired by Worth’s professional tarot reading, these poems about ritual, magic, and daily life “explore the thin veil between them and suggest it barely exists at all.”
The Braille Encyclopedia: Brief Essays on Altered Sight by Naomi Cohn
Rose Metal Press | October 23, 2024
This memoir about progressive vision loss “shapeshifts between lyric essay and prose poetry and traverses the divides between lived experience, history, and scientific knowledge.”
Book of Kin by Darius Atefat-Peckham
Autumn House Press | October 25, 2024
This debut poetry collection “follows a boy’s coming of age in the aftermath of a car accident that took the lives of both his mother and brother.”
An Altar of Tides by Peter Ludwin
Wandering Aengus Press | October 25, 2024
According to Kevin Miller, the poems in this collection “are steeped in the natural beauty of the Northwest, they are intricate and intimate.”
Lunulae: New & Selected Poems in Translation by Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Translated from the Irish by Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Wake Forest University Press | October 25, 2024
This new edition of the award-winning Irish-language poet’s work “revisits and reworks poems from her previous collection.”
Water, Spiderweb by Nada Gašić
Translated from the Croatian by Ellen Elias–Bursać
Sandorf Passage | October 29, 2024
Gašić’s “literary noir is set in motion by the historic 1964 Sava River flood that runs through the lives, and generations, of an eccentric cast of marginalized characters.”
Game Over Books | October 29, 2024
This novella focused on food, the body, eating disorder, identity, and desire is “an alternative campus novel that explores the possibility of love in a world where everything is always excessive yet unfulfilled.”
Whitewash by Frances Victory Schenkkan
Belle Point Press | October 29, 2024
This poetry collection “explores the civil rights era and its lingering tensions in Shreveport, Louisiana.”
Black Lawrence Press | October 29, 2024
This debut chapbook “intertwines modern mythology and one of literature’s most enduring figures, Shakespeare’s Ophelia–using both as a vessel to explore betrayal and grief.”
No Credit River by Zoe Whittall
Book*hug Press | October 29, 2024
According to Ali Blythe, this memoir in prose poetry “is a testament to our queer and artistic communities—profoundly thoughtful, coursing with intelligence.”
Unsolicited Press | October 29, 2024
According to Brenda Janowitz, this romantic novel is “a thoughtful exploration of the choices we make, and how one chance meeting (or lack thereof) can change your life in complicated and unexpected ways.”
We Shall Not All Sleep by Tony Woodlief
Slant Books | October 29, 2024
According to Ron Hansen, this coming-of-age novel is a “beautifully written portrait of a father and son’s deep love for each other, and of the guilt and hauntings, both real and imagined, that threaten and challenge them.”
Waiting for Maria by Ifeoma Chinwuba
Iskanchi Press | October 30, 2024
This novel, a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers Prize, “explores the harrowing experiences of female inmates caught in Nigeria’s sluggish justice system.”
The Civilization by K. M. McKenzie
Iskanchi Press | October 30, 2024
In this young adult fantasy novel, 17-year-old Kadsa “enters a realm of dark forces, ancient deities, and looming annihilation” on a mission to save her grandfather.
The Man with Yellow Hair by Meriel Mongie
Iskanchi Press | October 30, 2024
This novel “delves into the experiences and emotions of mature women, providing readers with a rich and nuanced portrayal of relationships, loss, and the passage of time.”
Iskanchi Press | October 30, 2024
This children’s fantasy book “follows Mafoya, a determined girl who dreams of becoming her town’s top sprinter.”
Una nueva ciudad, un nuevo hogar / A New City, a New Home by Elías David
Arte Público Press | October 31, 2024
In this bilingual picture book for children ages 4 to 8, parents “help their son cope with a scary change: leaving everything familiar behind and moving to a new home in a new city.”
Translated into the Spanish by Alaíde Ventura Medina
Arte Público Press | October 31, 2024
The stories in this bilingual collection for children “feature creepy creatures from Latin American lore with a contemporary twist.”
Ghost Brother by Sylvia Sánchez Garza
Arte Público Press | October 31, 2024
This young adult novel “explores death, grief and the supernatural folklore of Mexican Americans in South Texas.”
Trini’s Magic Kitchen by Patricia Santos Marcantonio
Arte Público Press | October 31, 2024
This novel for middle readers explores a “young girl’s family difficulties alongside new adventures in the kitchen.”
El empacho de Isabel / Isabel’s Tummy Ache by Julio Molinete
Translated from the Spanish by Gabriela Baeza Ventura
Arte Público Press | October 31, 2024
This bilingual picture book “follows a girl who visits her grandmother and explores the food and customs of her Caribbean island.”
Arte Público Press | October 31, 2024
This bilingual picture book “warmly depicts the love of lost family members—even four-legged ones—and the Mexican indigenous tradition of the Day of the Dead/El Día de los Muertos.”
Shane’s Journey to Shiprock by Gloria L. Velásquez
Arte Público Press | October 31, 2024
The new novel in the Roosevelt High School Series “acquaints teen readers with traumatic events experienced by Native American communities in the Southwest, including forced displacement, loss of family and struggles with alcoholism.”
