by Angie Cruz (2022)
Cara Romero thought she would work at the lamp factory for the rest of her life. But when she loses her job in the Great Recession at in her mid-50s, she is forced back into the workforce and meets with a job counselor across twelve sessions, recounting her tumultuous life, family feuds, gentrification, and fierce Dominican resilience.
August Wilson
"Set in 1985 in two tenement backyards in Pittsburgh's Hill District, King Hedley II continues playwright August Wilson's monumental cycle of plays chronicling African American life in twentieth century America. An epic tragedy of the common man and the crushing weight of everyday life and our ultimate struggle to regain our sense of community and culture in a crumbling urban society." -- Back cover.
Jhumpa Lahiri
The Namesake is Jhumpa Lahiri's poignant debut novel expanding upon the themes of her Pulitzer Prize-winning collection. It follows the Ganguli family, who leave Calcutta for Cambridge, Massachusetts, focusing on their son Gogol Ganguli as he navigates the tangled burdens of heritage, cultural displacement, identity, and his awkward, inherited name.
Richard Osman
In a peaceful luxury retirement village in Kent, four unlikely septuagenarian friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to investigate unsolved crimes. When a ruthless local real estate developer is found murdered with a mysterious photograph beside his body, the Thursday Murder Club suddenly find themselves in the middle of their first live case.
Angie Cruz
A lyrical, heartfelt debut novel about a young art student who left Washington Heights for downtown Manhattan, but must return to her mother's bedside when her mother falls into an emotional coma, confronting buried Dominican family ghosts.