How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
Interwoven stories of four Latina sisters chronicling their assimilation into the United States and their visits back to the Dominican Republic.
Historical Fiction
Migration ID
121
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
A chance discovery of items left behind by Japanese-Americans forced into internment camps during World War II causes Henry Lee, a Chinese-American and recent widower, to reflect on his first romance with Keiko, which ended when her family was evacuated.
Middlesex
Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is an intersex person, a situation with roots in her grandparent's desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s.
Wisconsin Fiction Authors
A selection of titles by and longer list of fiction authors who were born or have lived in Wisconsin for a significant period of time, whose books you can find in the Madison Public Library collection.
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