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Book Review
of the Month:
No Greater Love

2008-09 Latino and Latin American
Major Award Winners

2008 Pultizer Prizewinner, Dominican American, Junot Diaz

2008 National Book Critics Circle Winner, Chilean,
Roberto Bolaño

2009 Premio Aztlan Winner,
Mexican American, Patricia Santana

Created by John S. Christie, Ph.D. and Jose B. Gonzalez, Ph.D., Co-Editors of Latino Boom:An Anthology of U.S. Latino Literature, this site is for:

Students conducting research on Latino literature.
Faculty who have incorporated Latino Boom into their classrooms.
Readers who are eager to learn more about literature written by the largest minority group in the U.S.

Latino Boom Resource Guide:

Full Text to Latino Fiction and the Modernist Imagination by John S. Christie, Ph.D.:

`Chapter 1`	`Chapter 2`	`Chapter 3`	`Chapter 4`	`Chapter 5`	`Chapter 6`	WORKS CITED PAGE
`Part I`	`Part I`	`Part I`	`Part 1`	`Part I`	`Part I`
`Part II`	`Part II`	`Part II`	`Part II`	`Part II`	`Part II`
	`Part III`	`Part III`	`Part III`		`Part III`

One of the first full-length academic studies of U.S. Latino Literature (published by Garland Press in 1998), available only on LatinoStories.com. Chapters on:

1) The Narrative Techniques of the Border 2) The "Magic" of Influence Upon Latino Narrative 3) Latino Voices and "English Con Salsa"4) Dreams & Betrayals: Latinos Between Worlds
5) Carnival & the Department Store Called "America"
6) Flowers of the Dead: The Latino Quest for Ancestors

Book Review of the Month: No Greater Love	2008-09 Latino and Latin American Major Award Winners
Book Review of the Month: No Greater Love	2008 Pultizer Prizewinner, Dominican American, Junot Diaz	2008 National Book Critics Circle Winner, Chilean, Roberto Bolaño	2009 Premio Aztlan Winner, Mexican American, Patricia Santana