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This Hispanic Heritage Month, check out these memoirs by Latine authors available at UT Libraries!

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Night-Blooming Jasmin(n)e by Jasminne Méndez
ISBN: 9781558858619

Publication Date: 2018-04-30

A deeply personal collection about the author’s chronic illness, experience with the medical system, and her Afro-Latinidad.
Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Díaz
ISBN: 9781616209131

Publication Date: 2019-10-29

Díaz takes us through her challenging girlhood and triumphant coming of age in this lyrical memoir that reads like a novel.
Funeral for Flaca by Emilly Giselle Prado
ISBN: 9781892061874

Publication Date: 2021-07-01

In this collection of essays, Prado shares her experience “coming of age as a prep-turned-chola-turned-punk” while exploring themes of love, identity, and family.
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
ISBN: 9781644450031

Publication Date: 2019-11-05

In this inventive memoir, Machado uses different narrative tropes turned on their head to recount her harrowing experience in an abusive relationship.
Solito: a Read with Jenna Pick by Javier Zamora
ISBN: 9780593498064

Publication Date: 2022-09-06

Javier Zamora writes of his harrowing journey from El Salvador to the United States as his nine year old self in this emotional memoir.
Liliana's Invincible Summer (Pulitzer Prize Winner) by Cristina Rivera Garza
ISBN: 9780593244098

Publication Date: 2023-02-28

Cristina Rivera Garza shares her sister with us in a tender and personal narrative, while simultaneously shedding light on the femicide problem in Mexico.

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