Books like Bless Me, Ultima
In a New Mexico village during the Second World War, six-year-old Antonio Márez comes of age under the eye of Ultima, an old curandera who comes to live with his family, while his mother hopes he will become a priest.
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Chronicle in Stone
A boy grows up in Gjirokastër, a city of stone in southern Albania, during the Second World War, as Italians, Greeks and Germans take turns occupying it.
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
On the eve of her ninth birthday in Los Angeles, Rose Edelstein bites into her mother's lemon cake and tastes her mother's despair, and from then on every bite of food tells her how the cook was feeling.
The Red Pony
Jody Tiflin, a ten-year-old on his family's ranch in the Salinas Valley, is given a red pony colt to raise, the first of the lessons his childhood will teach him.
The House on Mango Street
Esperanza Cordero, a girl growing up in a Latino neighbourhood of Chicago, tells in short vignettes of the house her family finally owns, the neighbours on her street and the life she means to make for herself.
To a God Unknown
Joseph Wayne leaves his father's Vermont farm for a green valley in California, and comes to believe the great oak beside his new house holds his dead father's spirit.
The Issa Valley
Thomas, a boy growing up with his grandparents in a river valley in the Lithuanian countryside after the First World War, learns about nature, faith and death.
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Two lonely Mexican-American boys meet at an El Paso swimming pool in 1987 and learn, across two summers, what it is they have been carrying and what the other one is for.
Two-Step Devil
An elderly Alabama prophet who paints apocalyptic visions tries to save a young trafficking victim, and the devil keeps showing up.
The Shack
Years after his youngest daughter was abducted on a family camping trip, with evidence that she was murdered in an abandoned shack in the Oregon wilderness, Mack Phillips finds a note in his mailbox, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend.
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Edgar Sawtelle, born unable to speak, grows up on a farm in northern Wisconsin where his family breeds and trains a line of uncommonly gifted dogs, until his father's brother, Claude, comes home.
The Famished Road
Azaro, a spirit child in a Nigerian slum who has refused to go back to the spirit world, lives between it and the world of his poor, struggling parents.
Life of Pi
When the ship carrying his family's zoo sinks, sixteen-year-old Pi Patel is left adrift in the Pacific on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, and has to find a way to survive with him.