I found Meet Me in Monaco: A Novel of Grace Kelly’s Royal Wedding in a Little Free Library and grabbed it, because Monaco is a country and I have a long list of countries to read about. This is a fun read that moves along at a nice pace, about people who are tangentially involved… [Read More]
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Brown in the Windy City: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago
Many people are astonished to find out that Chicago has a huge Latinx population, given that it’s far from the southern border and the weather is, well, a bit different than that of Mexico. Brown in the Windy City: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago (Historical Studies of Urban America) by Lilia Fernandez is an… [Read More]
