Books like A Woman Is No Man
In 1990 Isra, seventeen, is married off in Palestine and taken to live with her husband's family in Brooklyn. In 2008 her daughter Deya, eighteen and under pressure to marry, starts to learn the truth about her mother.
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Brown Girl, Brownstones
Selina Boyce, the daughter of Barbadian immigrants in a Brooklyn brownstone during the Depression and the war, grows up caught between her dreaming father and her mother, who is set on buying the house whatever it costs.
The Last Story of Mina Lee
When her mother stops answering the phone, Margot Lee, twenty-six, goes home to Koreatown in Los Angeles and finds her dead, and as she tries to find out what happened, the story of Mina's arrival in 1987 is told alongside hers.
Dominicana
In 1965 Ana Canción, fifteen, is married off by her family to Juan Ruiz, a man twice her age, and taken from the Dominican countryside to an apartment in Washington Heights, so that the rest of them can follow.
The Book of Ruth
Ruth, a plain and overlooked girl in a small Illinois town, grows up under a bitter mother who favours her clever brother, and marries Ruby Dahl, a damaged young man, who comes to live with them.
Infinite Country
Talia, fifteen, escapes from a reform school in the Colombian mountains to make the flight to New York that will reunite her with the family she was separated from as a baby.
Dreaming in Cuban
Three generations of women of the del Pino family, a grandmother loyal to Castro in Cuba and her daughters and granddaughter in Brooklyn and Havana, are divided by politics and the sea.
Black Cake
Byron and Benny Bennett, estranged siblings, come home to California after their mother's death to find she has left them a long voice recording, the story of her life in the Caribbean, and a black cake in the freezer.
Of Women and Salt
In Miami in 2018 Jeanette, newly sober, goes to Cuba to learn about her family from her grandmother, and the story reaches back to her great-great-grandmother in a Camagüey cigar factory in 1866.
Breath, Eyes, Memory
Sophie Caco, raised by her aunt in a Haitian village, is sent at twelve to join the mother she barely knows in New York.
What's Mine and Yours
When a North Carolina county brings Black and Latino students from the east side into a mostly white high school, two families, Gee's and Noelle's, are bound together for the next twenty years.
Bastard Out of Carolina
Ruth Anne 'Bone' Boatwright grows up among the hard-drinking, fiercely loyal Boatwright clan of Greenville, South Carolina, while her mother's new husband turns her childhood into a fight to survive.
The Map of Salt and Stars
A Syrian girl fleeing war and a medieval mapmaker's journey echo across eight centuries.