This week Alice and Kim talk about nonfiction reads for Hispanic Heritage Month.

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Nonfiction in the News

Jung Hae Chae Wins the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize [Graywolf Press]

2022 National Book Awards Longlist for Nonfiction [National Book Foundation]

Writer Samantha Irby calls her latest book ‘a devolution!’ [Entertainment Weekly]

NEW NONFICTION 

Listen, World!: How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America’s Most-Read Woman by Julia Scheeres and Allison Gilbert

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton

Runaway: Notes on the Myths that Made Me by Erin Keane

Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons by Anthony Christian Ocampo

WEEKLY THEME: HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH

In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado

The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantu

Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands by Kelly Lytle Hernández

In the Country We Love: My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero

READING NOW

KIM: The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee

ALICE: The Office BFFs by Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey

CONCLUSION

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