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This week Alice and Kim highlight nonfiction books by Hispanic and Latinx authors. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton and Kim Ukura. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nonfiction in the News Historian of Race in America Gets an Unusual Four-Book Deal [New York Times] 2021 National Book Award Longlists [NPR] New Nonfiction America Calling: A Foreign Student in a Country of Possibility by Rajika Bhandari Please Don’t Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays by Phoebe Robinson – Tiny Reparations Books No Cure for Being Human: (And Other Truths I Need to Hear) by Kate Bowler True Raiders: The Untold Story of the 1909 Expedition to Find the Legendary Ark of the Covenant by Brad Ricca Weekly Theme: Hispanic Heritage Month National Hispanic American Heritage Month 2021 Who is Hispanic? [Pew Research Center] Hispanic Or Latino? A Guide For The U.S. Presidential Campaign [NPR] Once Upon a Quinceanera: Coming of Age in the USA by Julia Alvarez My Sister: How One Sibling’s Transition Changed Us Both by Selenis and Marizol Leyva The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú From Coveralls to Zoot Suits : The Lives of Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front by Elizabeth Rachel Escobedo Quick Mentions In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Díaz Reading Now KIM: Harlem Shuffle: A Novel by Colson Whitehead ALICE: My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink. RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts so people can find us more easily, and follow us there so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.