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Sophie Caco, raised by her aunt in a Haitian village, is sent at twelve to join the mother she barely knows in New York.
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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.
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.
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.
Lucy
Lucy, nineteen, leaves Antigua to work as an au pair for a wealthy white family in New York, and is in no mood to be grateful.
Everything Inside
Eight stories of Haitians in Miami, in Port-au-Prince and on an unnamed island, among them a woman visiting a dying friend, a man on the edge of a roof and a love triangle that reaches across the sea.
Banyan Moon
After her grandmother Minh dies, Ann Tran comes home to the crumbling Banyan House on the Florida Gulf Coast, where she and her estranged mother, Huong, have to live together again and face the family's secrets.
Patsy
Patsy, a young woman in Kingston, leaves her five-year-old daughter, Tru, with the girl's father and goes to New York on a tourist visa, hoping to find Cicely, the friend she has loved since childhood.
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.
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
Four sisters from a well-off Dominican family, forced to flee to New York in 1960, grow up American, told backwards from adulthood to their island childhood.
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.
Annie John
Annie John grows up in Antigua adored by her mother, until at twelve she begins to grow up and the love turns into a war.
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.