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The Book of Unknown AmericansText Overview

We will read the novel The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez, as well as a collection of poems and short narratives. The titles, authors, and locations of these texts are indicated in the Unit Text List.

Core

  • Tradebook
    • The Book of Unknown Americans, Cristina Henríquez, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2015
  • Unit Reader
    • “Immigrants in Our Own Land,” Jimmy Santiago Baca, New Directions Publishing Corp., 1979
    • “My Mother Never Worked,” Bonnie Smith-Yackel, Women: A Journal of Liberation, 1975
    • “Sixty-Nine Cents,” excerpt from Little Failure: A Memoir, Gary Shteyngart, Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2014
    • “The Wanderers,” Guadalupe Nettel, Granta Publications, 2018
  • Digital Access
    • The Catch, Norman Rockwell, Norman Rockwell Museum, 1919
    • The Uprising, Diego Rivera, Museum of Modern Art, 1931

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