Books like Where do they go? by Julia Alvarez

Alice Walker's 1982 novel, The Color Purple, won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, exploring the lives of black women in the South and their experiences of abuse and struggle for independence.

A ten‑year‑old boy in rural Virginia befriends a newcomer, and together they create the imaginary kingdom of Terabithia, a friendship that ends tragically when a storm forces an untimely death.

Sandra Cisneros’ celebrated coming‑of‑age tale follows Esperanza Cordero as she grows up in Chicago’s Mexican-American community, exploring identity through poetic vignettes.

A heart-wrenching coming-of-age story of poverty and resilience in 1930s Brooklyn.

A luminous twins’ story of love, loss, and family that follows Jude and Noah from carefree adolescence to a painful rift, as each seeks healing and a return to one another.

A gripping tale of a Mexican American teenage girl facing the challenges of adulthood and grief, set against the backdrop of her Mexican American family in New York.

Julia Álvarez’s Pulitzer‑winning memoir‑like novel chronicles the lives of four Dominican sisters who became symbols of resistance against Rafael Trujillo’s dictatorship, blending history, family, and the Spanish language’s lyrical beauty.

A young German girl's curiosity leads her to uncover the horrors of the concentration camps during World War II.

A Dominican‑American teenager in New Jersey struggles with weight, family history, and an unbreakable love, while his dream of becoming a writer clashes with a centuries‑old curse that haunts his lineage.

A colorful, rhyming story about a mouse that shows children what's inside a People House.

The shocking memoir by visionary Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas "is a book above all about being free," said The New York Review of Books--sexually, politically, artistically. Arenas recounts a stunning odyssey from his poverty-stricken childhood in rural Cuba and his adolescence as a rebel fighting for Castro, through his suppression as a writer, imprisonment as a homosexual, his flight from Cuba via the Mariel boat lift, and his subsequent life and the events leading to his death in New York. In what The Miami Herald calls his "deathbed ode to eroticism," Arenas breaks through the code of secrecy and silence that protects the privileged in a state where homosexuality is a political crime. Recorded in simple, straightforward prose, this is the true story of the Kafkaesque life and world re-created in the author's acclaimed novels.

A vivid and funny first novel about three generations of a Cuban family divided by conflicting loyalties over the Cuban revolution, set in the world of Havana in the 1970s and '80s and in an emigre neighborhood of Brooklyn. It is a story of immense charm about women and politics, women and witchcraft, women and their men.

Summary:"FUTURE/PRESENT brings together a vast collection of writers, artists, activists, and academics working at the forefront of today's most pressing struggles for cultural equity and racial justice in a demographically changing America. The volume builds upon five years of national organizing by Arts in a Changing America, an artist-led initiative that challenges structural racism by centering people of color who are leading innovation at the nexus of arts production, community benefit, and social change. FUTURE/PRESENT includes a range of essays and criticism, visual and performance art, artist manifestos, interviews, poetry, and reflections on community practice. Throughout, contributors examine issues of placekeeping and belonging, migration and diasporas, the carceral state, renegotiating relationships with land, ancestral knowledge as radical futurity, and shifting paradigms of inequity. Foregrounding the powerful resilience of communities of color, FUTURE/PRESENT advances the role of artists as first responders to injustices, creative stewards in the cohesion and health of communities, and innovative strategists for equity. Selected contributors. adrienne maree brown, Dahlak Brathwaite, Jeff Chang, Tameca Cole, Ofelia Esparza, Antoine Hunter, Nobuko Miyamoto, Wendy Red Star, Spel, Jose Antonio Vargas, Carrie Mae Weems, Hinaleimoana Kwai Kong Wong-Kalu"-- Provided by publisher

Julia Alvarez’s debut nonfiction collection, “Something to Declare,” presents personal essays that explore her bicultural upbringing and her journey as a writer, rooted in her family's exile to New York after a failed Dominican coup known as the Trujillo regime.

Sam tries to make new friend Buddy after his mother's sudden death in fifth grade, but fears it will tear him away from his best friend Alex.

A gripping coming-of-age story about a young woman grappling with the aftermath of her sister's suicide, and the secrets that tear families apart.

Quinlan McKee, a former “closer” who impersonates the deceased to help grieving families, must confront betrayal and a looming epidemic when her own life is threatened by those she trusted.