Status
Available
Publication
MCD (2023), 256 pages
Description
"A new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer about the twenty-first-century Latino experience and identity"--
User reviews
LibraryThing member giovannigf
Our Migrant Souls is a beautiful, book-length essay filled with indignation, melancholy, and, most importantly, love. Love for Latinos, love for a mixing of races and cultures, love for breaking free of outdated, restrictive stories.
Unlike his earlier Translation Nation: Defining a New American
Read it. If, like me, you're Latino, it will fill you with pride. If you're not, it will open your eyes to the people all around you that you're failing to see.
Unlike his earlier Translation Nation: Defining a New American
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Identity in the Spanish-Speaking United States, which was essentially a compilation of mini-profiles as Tobar traveled across the United States meeting Latinos, this book masterfully weaves the stories of his students, the people that he meets, and his own family into a moving treatise about what connects Latinos of all sorts and about the future we can create if we fight the oppressive capitalist system that dehumanizes the poor and the brown and Black.Read it. If, like me, you're Latino, it will fill you with pride. If you're not, it will open your eyes to the people all around you that you're failing to see.
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LibraryThing member Iudita
This book was an organizational mess.
Awards
Kirkus Prize (Finalist — Nonfiction — 2023)
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction (Longlist — Nonfiction — 2024)
NPR: Books We Love (2023)
The New York Times Notable Books of the Year (Nonfiction — 2023)
Notable Books List (Nonfiction — 2024)
Chicago Public Library Best of the Best: Adults (Selection — 2023)
Denver Public Library Staff Picks for Adults (Nonfiction — 2023)
Language
Original language
English