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• Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here

  the United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

  Blitzer, Jonathan,

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  Examines the political factors in Central American countries such as El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras that have led to the humanitarian crises at American's southern border as told through the stories of these migrants.

• Central America's Forgotten History

  Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration

  Chomsky, Aviva, 1957-

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  Places Central American migration to the United States in the context of the region's history of conquest, colonialism, revolution, and neoliberalism, looking especially at the revolutionary experiments of the 1980s and their aftermath.

• The SalviSoul Cookbook

  Salvadoran Recipes & the Women Who Preserve Them

  Vasquez, Karla Tatiana, 1987-

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  Enjoy the food and culture of El Salvador with delicious photos, recipes and stories.

• Latinoland

  a Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority

  Arana, Marie (Writer),

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  Based on research and hundreds of interviews, this is a wide-ranging overview of the diverse Latino experience examines the fastest-growing minority in America.

• My Fourth Time, We Drowned

  Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route

  Hayden, Sally (Journalist),

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• What Strange Paradise

  El Akkad, Omar, 1982-

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  Omar El Akkad speaks on Tue. Jan. 28, as part of Everybody Reads. When a dilapidated ship carrying refugees sinks, the only survivor is a boy named Amir. Government officials, tourists and residents of the island where he lands are more concerned…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Unforgetting

  a Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas

  Lovato, Roberto,

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  A journalistic memoir detailing firsthand experiences with immigration, gang life and guerilla warfare. Explores the violence that shaped generations of his impoverished Salvadoran family.

• Coffeeland

  One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug

  Sedgewick, Augustine,

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  This history of how coffee came to be produced by the world's poorest people and consumed by its richest asks us what it means to be connected to far-away people and places through the familiar things that make up our everyday lives.

• Tell Mother I'm in Paradise

  Memoirs of a Political Prisoner in El Salvador

  Gasteazoro, Ana Margarita,

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  The extraordinary life story of Ana Margarita Gasteazoro (1950–1993), a Salvadoran opposition activist and renowned Amnesty International prisoner of conscience.

• The Far Away Brothers

  Two Young Migrants and the Making of An American Life

  Markham, Lauren,

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  Identical twins Ernesto and Raul Flores, seventeen, must flee El Salvador, make a harrowing journey across the Rio Grande and the Texas desert, face capture by immigration authorities, and struggle to navigate life in America.

• Enrique's Journey

  the True Story of a Boy Determined to Reunite With His Mother

  Nazario, Sonia,

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  Describes one Honduran boy's difficult and dangerous journey to find his mother, who had made the trek northward to the United States in search of a better life.

• Illegal Cargo

  Mora, Augusto, 1984-

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  A Salvadoran father goes on the search for his adult daughter, who went missing on her journey to try to cross into the US via Mexico. Features the Central-American folklore figure of la Siguanaba.

• My Side of the River

  a Memoir

  Gutierrez, Elizabeth Camarillo,

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  Exploring separation, generational trauma and the toll of the American dream, the author recounts what happened when, at age 15, her parents were forced back to Mexico, leaving her and her brother to fend for themselves as underage victims affected…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Distance Between Us

  a Memoir

  Grande, Reyna

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  "At the age of 8, Reyna Grande made the dangerous and illegal trek across the border from Mexico to the United States, and discovered that the American Dream is much more complicated that it seemed."

• The Wind Knows My Name

  a Novel

  Allende, Isabel,

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  Traces the ripple effects of war and immigration on two children--five-year-old Samuel, whose mother puts him on a Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938, and seven-year-old Anita, who boards another train eight decades later…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Exit West

  a Novel

  Hamid, Mohsin, 1971-

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  This story, an Everybody Reads pick in 2018, uses magic realism to explore the idea that we are all 'migrants through time'.

• The Volcano Daughters

  Balibrera, Gina Maria,

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  The ghosts of four young Indigenous women who were victims of the real-life 1932 El Salvadoran ethnocide narrate the story of their childhood friends Graciela and Consuela, daughters of a tenant farmer who becomes a trusted adviser of a ruthless…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Solito, Solita

  Crossing Borders With Youth Refugees From Central America

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  Zamora's story is featured in this collection of stories from young migrants.

• Solito

  a Memoir

  Zamora, Javier,

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  A young poet reflects on his 3,000-mile journey from El Salvador to the United States when he was nine years old, during which he was faced with perilous boat trips, relentless desert treks, pointed guns, arrests and deceptions during two…Read moreRead more of this annotation