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Floresj
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Pickpick

This isn‘t an easy read and it pairs well with “Everyone who is Gone is Here”. Following the human smugglers who are the guides or coyotes for people who are leaving Central America and migrating to Mexico or the US. It‘s intense, complicated, and told with humanity. Excellent!

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Kshakal
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Thanks for the tag @TheSpineView and @Eggs

#wonderouswednesday

1. Lilacs bring back the memory of growing up on the farm
2. I remember hanging out with my dad and grandpa all summer long

@BethM @peaKnit @JenReadsAlot

Texreader So sweet!! 2h
Eggs Love the memories here❣️ 2h
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BarbaraBB
Read the World | Pushpinder Khaneka
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#ReadTheWorld2025

In March and April I‘ve read 7 books set in or written by author from places around the world: #Italy #Switzerland #Iraq #France #Iran #Denmark #Mexico #Argentina

I have the #InternationalBooker to thank for most of these books!

mcctrish That‘s awesome 1d
Ruthiella Nice work! 👍 1d
Bookwormjillk Love that! 1d
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Lesliereadsalot So cool! 1d
GatheringBooks Oh wow! This is a fantastic collage. I plan on doing a half year post of all #ReadTheWorld2025 posts on GatheringBooks and this just might be central to that post - it‘s amazing! Which one is the book from Iraq? Is it Fundamentally, because I already have that one. 1d
GatheringBooks @BarbaraBB i will move it up my TBR stack, then. 💕 1d
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OriginalCyn620
Mexican Gothic | Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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This is my pick for #fictionaltraveler for May!

monalyisha My friend, who is a Spanish teacher, was just telling me that she spotted a Spanish language version of this at B&N and it‘s just called “Gothic.” 3d
julieclair Ooohhh… this one has been on my TBR for awhile. Enjoy! 3d
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GatheringBooks
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Cupcake12 I love the Groot plant holder, so cute x 2w
Eggs Great photo👏🏻 2w
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lil1inblue
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Eggs Now I‘m yearning for chocolate !🍫! 2w
lil1inblue @Eggs Same! 🤩 2w
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BarbaraBB
Reservoir Bitches: Stories | Dahlia de la Cerda
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Pickpick

“Every 2 hours and 25 minutes, a woman in #Mexico is strangled, raped, dismembered, burned alive, mutilated, beaten to pulp, and left with bruises and broken bones.”

Combine these gruesome facts on femicide with living the high life of drugs, money, cosmetic surgery and Instagram followers and you probably have the span of Mexican society and of this #InternationalBooker collection of short stories. A good one.

#ReadingTheWorld2025

Tamra Sounds rough! 3w
GatheringBooks Ooh! A perfect gruesome book to read for #ReadTheWorld2025 indeed. 3w
sarahbarnes Glad to see you liked this one too! 3w
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Decalino
Velvet Was the Night | Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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Pickpick

In this atmospheric noir novel set in Mexico in the 1970s, Maite is a dissatisfied secretary who livens up her life with romance comics, lies, and the occasional petty theft, while Elvis is a member of the Hawks, hired thugs trained to violently disrupt student protests. As they both become embroiled in the search for a missing young woman, Maite and Elvis each seek escape through music and glimpses of beauty in a tedious and often violent world.

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JosueAngel
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Not going to lie, I struggled with this book because I read it in Spanish. It was full of mysticism and was a great insight into the hardships of an abandoned town in Mexico during the cristero period as Juan Preciado returns to find his father.
I‘ll eventually reread it in English because I feel I may have lost some nuances. Overall, I recommend.

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Tamra
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5 ⭐️ for the content and engaging style.

Very valuable in helping to understand the mechanisms of migration in Latin America. Jason spent 6 years among and studying the culture of human smugglers.

The word “hope” in the subtitle is misleading. It‘s not hope for the crisis ending, it‘s the hope both migrants and many smugglers have of escaping desperate poverty & violence.

Now downloading his first book which is focused on migrants.