Outstanding Memoirs - SIGNED BOOKS
Immerse yourself in these outstanding memoirs!
The Prince of Los Cocuyos:A Miami Childhood by Richard Bianco (Paperback) A poignant, hilarious, and inspiring memoir from the first Latino and openly gay inaugural poet. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
Heavy: an America Memoir by Kiese Laymon, winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for his harrowing but tender memoir, in which he untangles his complex relationships with his mother and his Southern family roots.
Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire (Paperback) “Have mercy on me, Lord, I am Cuban.” In 1962, Carlos Eire was one of 14,000 children airlifted out of Havana—exiled from his family, his country, and his own childhood by Fidel Castro’s revolution. Winner of the National Book Award, this stunning memoir is a vibrant and evocative look at Latin America from a child’s unforgettable experience. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
Learning to Die in Miami: Confessions of a Refugee Boy by Carlos Eire (Paperback) Continuing the personal saga begun in the National Book Award-winning Waiting for Snow in Havana, the inspiring, sad, funny, bafflingly beautiful story of a boy uprooted by the Cuban Revolution and transplanted to Miami during the years of the Kennedy administration. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with severe epilepsy. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, Anne Fadiman's compassionate account of this cultural impasse is literary journalism at its finest.
Name : Carlos Eire
Name : Richard Bianco
Name : Kiese Laymon
Name : Anne Fadiman
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