Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration

Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and MigrationA 2023 Indie Next List Pick A Summer Fall 2023 Adult Indies Introduce Pick A 2023 Roxanne Gay Audacious Book Club Pick Winner of the 2022 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant In this powerful and deeply felt memoir of translation, storytelling, and borders, Alejandra Oliva, a Mexican American translator and immigrant justice activist, offers a powerful chronical of her experience interpreting at the US Mexico border. In Rivermouth, Oliva focuses on the

he finds the old trails are now impassable and the countryside he once traversed freely has become contested ground

Rick's poignant essays throughout lend context--both personal and cultural--to quilt together a story that is rich and beautiful

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Two drunken brothers attend a wedding afterparty and hatch a plan to expose their shady uncle's snubbing of the bride and groom

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and finding a place in a divided country where the only commonality among your neighbors is the universal love of sandwiches

but Lila knows that wherever Ronnie goes

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from NAACP Image Award nominee Elise Bryant

And when she meets Oliver

she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny

are they ready to leave it all behind