Read Around North America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in North America.
Best books from North America (2060)
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Ten Planets : Stories by Yuri Herrera EN
Country: North America / 
Mexico
Mexico
Description:
A collection of fanciful, philosophical science fictions by “one of Mexico’s finest novelists” (Vulture). The characters that populate Yuri Herrera’s surprising new story collection inhabit imagined futures that reveal the strangeness and instability of the present. Drawing on science fiction, noir, and the philosophical parables of Jorge Luis Borges’s Fictions and Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics, these very short stories are an inspired extension of this significant writer’s work. In Ten Planets, objects can be sentient and might rebel against the unhappy human family to which they are attached. ... continue
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America del Norte by Nicolas Medina Mora EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Moving between New York City, Mexico City, and Iowa City, a young member of the Mexican elite sees his life splinter in a centuries-spanning debut that blends the Latin American traditions of Roberto Bolaño and Fernanda Melchor with the autofiction of US writers like Ben Lerner and Teju Cole. Sebastián lived a childhood of privilege in Mexico City. Now in his twenties, he has a degree from Yale, an American girlfriend, and a slot in the University of Iowa’s MFA program. But Sebastián’s life is shaken by the Trump administration’s restrictions on immigrants, his mother’s terminal cancer, the cr... continue
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Páradais by Fernanda Melchor ES
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
En un conjunto residencial de lujo, dos adolescentes inadaptados se reúnen por las noches para embriagarse a escondidas y compartir sus descabelladas fantasías. Franco Andrade, obeso y solitario, adicto a la pornografía, sueña con seducir a la vecina de al lado –una atractiva mujer casada, madre de familia-, por quien ha desarrollado una obsesión malsana; mientras que Polo, su reacio compañero, fantasea con renunciar a su agobiante empleo como jardinero del exclusivo fraccionamiento y huir de su casa, de su pueblo infestado de narcos, y del yugo ... continue
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Ningún Reloj Cuenta Esto by Cristina Rivera Garza ES
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
«La creación literaria riveragarziana, la más fuerte, la más capaz de derribar barreras y limitaciones.» -Elena Poniatowska En estos cuentos habitan un hombre que cree haberse enamorado de una sirena del Nevado de Toluca; una chica en Nueva York que traduce cartas sobre un amor secreto para una cosmetóloga; un hombre que intenta hallar un lugar recurrente en sus sueños; y un adolescente enamoradizo que vive entre la casa de sus amantes y la cancha de futbol de su barrio. Todos ellos comparten un mismo conflicto: el encuentro con el otro, en particular, con la figura femenina, que irremedia... continue
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Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
In the heart of Mexico City a woman, trapped in a house and a marriage she can neither fully inhabit nor abandon, thinks about her past.She has decided to write a novel about her days at a publishing house in New York; about the strangers who became lovers and the poets and ghosts who once lived in her neighbourhood. In particular, one of the obsessions of her youth - Gilberto Owen - an obscure Mexican poet of the 1920s, a marginal figure of the Harlem Renaissance, a busker on Manhattan's subway platforms, a friend and an enemy of Federico Garca Lorca. As she writes, Gilberto Owen comes to lif... continue
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Mrs. Murakami's Garden by Mario Bellatin EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
The latest work in English by renowned Chilean-Mexican cult writer Mario Bellatin, a short, allegorical novel that questions truth, art, language, and the split between East and West.