Books We Loved in 2023
MILES TO GO: AN AFRICAN FAMILY IN SEARCH OF AMERICA ALONG ROUTE 66 Brennen Matthews (UNM Press) Author Brennen Matthews chronicles an eye-opening road trip with his family from Chicago to California…
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Tag: What We're Reading
What We're Reading: New Mexico Fiestas
THE LONGEST-RUNNING FESTIVAL in the United States takes over the Santa Fe Plaza September 2–10. In New Mexico Fiestas: A History of Music, Dance & Fandango (The History Press), historian Ray John de…
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What We're Reading: Doña Cleanwell Leaves Home
MY BEST FRIEND AND I traded Ana Castillo’s The Mixquiahuala Letters back and forth during high school, inspired by the novel’s clear-eyed depiction of a long friendship between two women artists. In…
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What We're Reading: Girl Flees Circus
HOBBS NATIVE C.W. SMITH rolls out the inaugural novel in the University of New Mexico Press’s Lynn and Lynda Miller Southwest Fiction series, Girl Flees Circus, which rockets readers into a 1920s…
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What We're Reading: Blind Eye
A DOUBLE MURDER ANCHORS MARTHA BURNS’S debut novel, Blind Eye (Atmosphere Press), but the mystery of its perpetrator fits into larger dramas of generational abuse and a community’s reluctance to…
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