Books like From this wicked patch of dust by Sergio Troncoso

Ari, a fifteen‑year‑old Mexican‑American with a brother in prison, meets Dante and a friendship sparks that forces him to confront his identity, family, and sexuality.

Mexican farm workers must adjust to life in California during the Great Depression.

A final, defiant stand by the last great army of the Malazan Empire to secure redemption, as a mysterious, devastating power is unleashed.

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.

A tender portrait of a Mexican American family’s yearly migration across California’s agricultural fields, charting their growth, hardships, and enduring hope.

Four Dominican sisters uproot from a privileged life in Santo Domingo to the chaotic streets of the Bronx, rebelling against old‑world discipline while discovering a new American identity.

Reyna Grande’s middle‑grade retelling follows a Mexican‑American family as they struggle to cross borders, adopt a new life in the United States, and cope with separation and identity—all told in honest, touching prose.

Sixteen‑year‑old Gabi Hernandez documents her high‑school senior year as she watches a friend’s pregnancy, another’s coming out, and her own family struggles with meth abuse—all while finding identity through poetry.

Manny, a young Mexican American in a struggling family, navigates adolescence while coping with his father's alcoholism, learning resilience and self‑discovery along the way.

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.

Twice married, once divorced and once widowed, Soveida Dosamantes is a survivor. She is currently writing a handbook for waitresses called The Book of Service, a compendium of lessons she has learned working for thirty years at El Farol Mexican Restaurant in the rural Southwest. Looking back on her career, Soveida comes to understand the meaning of service in her own life and the role of women in a machismo culture and in the interconnected lives of work and family. Here is a rich chorus of Latino voices and a retinue of wayward husbands and lovers, from her grandmother, Mama Lupita, to Mama's elderly servant, Oralia; from her estranged parents, Luardo and Dolores, to the lovelorn restaurant manager Larry Larragoite, to the waiters and waitresses of El Farol, even its cough-syrup-swilling cook, Lavel. A novel of antic humor and sobering pain, of nachos and nourishment of every kind, Face of an Angel straddles old worlds and new, Mexican, American, and Mexican-American, to explore one woman's acceptance of her true vocation, her true love, and, ultimately, her true self.

After Maribel’s life‑saving recovery, the Rivera family seeks a new life in Delaware, but cultural and linguistic hurdles threaten to derail their hopes for the American Dream.