Hispanic Heritage Month - Contemporary Fiction
By: Donna Barba Higuera / Narrated By: Frankie Corzo / Cover Illustration By: Raxenne Maniquiz
Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
What a surprise! What a delight! Intricate, thoughtful… heartrending and heartwarming!!!
By: Randy Ribay / Narrated By: Ramón de Ocampo
Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
Kinda a surprise, but wholly delighted!
By: Annette Chavez Macias / Narrated By: Luzma Ortiz
Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
A high 3-starred >MEH<
By: Natalia Sylvester / Narrated By: Frankie Corzo
Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
Egregiously atrocious narration aaaalmost completely tanks this >MEH< story…
Written and Narrated By: Pablo Cartaya
Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
Compelling Concept and Successful Execution… There, I’ve managed to take the oh sooo large heart outta a truly beautiful story that’s wonderful for all ages…!!!
By: José Saramago / Translated By: Margaret Jull Costa / Narrated By: Paul Baymer
Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
Social Commentary? Check. A Bit O’ Sweetness…? Uhm, well, yeah… Go Death, Go!
By: Paul Pen / Translated By: Simon Bruni / Narrated By: Scott Merriman
Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
Good translation, but OY The Words!!!
Stories
Written and Narrated By: Luis Alberto Urrea
Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
Urrea’s stellar narration aaaalways makes his work, his words, SUBLIME
A Novel
Written and Narrated By: Ana Castillo
Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
Oh good golly gosh—Loved the stories, loved the use of language. What a wonderful surprise!
Growing Up in Cuba
By: Alma Flor Ada, Antonio Martorell / Narrated By: Trini Alvarado
Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
Oh what a delight!
Written and Narrated By: Elizabeth Acevedo
Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
Even if all the bumps got smoothed over quickly, this was a fine Listen
By: Meg Medina / Narrated By: Frankie Corzo
Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
A truly likable heroine who has a lot of curveballs thrown at her
By: Julia Alvarez / Narrated By: Alma Cuervo
Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
This could’ve been GREAT, but tooo many things got tooo rushed through
An Audible Original
By: Isaac Gomez / Narrated By: Kate del Castillo
Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
Raw and visceral, a one-woman show to be remembered
By: Matt de la Peña / Narrated By: Henry Leyva
Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
Passionate without being all “Fraught-with-Angst”
By: Demetria Martinez / Narrated By: Alyssa Bresnahan
Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
I started out haaating it, but gosh it winds up with a nice punch…!
By: Laura Esquivel / Narrated By: Yareli Arizmendi
Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
Steamy, satisfying, simply scrumptious. Oh, and fabulous narration!
By: Pam Munoz Ryan / Narrated By: Trini Alvarado
Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
First listen? Not so much. Second listen? Holy Cow, I almost missed a great story!
Written and Narrated By: Sandra Cisneros
Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
I dunno… Maybe it worked better in 1977?
By: Benjamin Alire Saenz / Narrated By: Lin-Manuel Miranda
Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
And they discover the secrets in El Paso, no less!
Written and Narrated By: Luis Alberto Urrea
Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
Five stars! No, six! No, ten! Twenty stars for this BEAUTIFUL book!!!
By: Miguel Reina / Translated By: Catherine E. Nelson / Narrated By: Malcolm Hillgartner
Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
At times simple; at other times? Simply beautiful
By: Ibi Zoboi / Narrated By: Elizabeth Acevedo
Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
Not the best P & P Variation but certainly memorable…