Hispanic Heritage


Showing 1 - 2 of 2  There are a total of 20 valid entries on the list.
Book cover for "Catalina"
Star rating for Catalina
Description:
"Catalina is trying to work out her own life as she leaves her undocumented family behind to enter Harvard. Suffering from bouts of PTSD, she struggles to connect to her new world just as she struggled to make sense of her old one. She infiltrates the subcultures of elite undergrads-internships and college newspapers, parties and secret societies-and observes them like an anthropologist, but then falls in love, or something like love, with a fellow...
Book cover for "The great divide"
Star rating for The great divide
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"A novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, following the intersecting lives of the local families fighting to protect their homeland, the West Indian laborers recruited to dig the waterway, and the white Americans who gained profit and glory for themselves"--