Latinx Heritage Month Guide

A man returns to the town where a baffling murder, that everyone anticipated, took place 27 years earlier, and he is determined to get to the bottom of the story. Yet if everyone knew the murder was going to happen, why did no one intervene to stop it? The more that is learned, the less is understood, and as the story races to its inexplicable conclusion, an entire society--not just a pair of murderers--is put on trial.

A young man returns to his pueblo and must reconcile the ghosts of the pasts, both literally and figuratively. A classic in Mexican Literature.

National Bestseller In this dazzling novel, the book that established his international reputation, Roberto Bolaño tells the story of two modern-day Quixotes--the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itself--on a tragicomic quest through a darkening, entropic universe: our own.The Savage Detectivesis an exuberant, raunchy, wildly inventive, and ambitious novel from one of the greatest Latin American authors of our age.

Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Korea, South Africa and India. An acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction, she is the author of “Faces in the Crowd,” “Sidewalks,” “The Story of My Teeth,” “Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions,” and, most recently, “Lost Children Archive.”

"The House on the Lagoon is the story of Quintin Mendizabal and his wife, Isabel Monfort. Isabel, a fledgling novelist, is writing a multigenerational novel about the history of their families, of Spanish and Corsican origins, and their arrival in Puerto Rico.

Winner of the 1998 American Book Award Spanning the years between 1932 and 1977, this beautifully told epic is set in the heart of El Salvador, where coffee plantations are the center of life for rich and poor alike.