3 books like Marge Piercy

What to read after Marge Piercy — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros · 1983 · ★ 3.9 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Moderate NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic, acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero, a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago, inventing for… Shares: Mexican Americans, Open_syllabus_project

Bless Me, Ultima Rudolfo A. Anaya · 1972 · ★ 3.8 · 252p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Ultima, a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic, comes to Antonio Marez's New Mexico family when he is six years old, and she helps him discover himself in the magical secrets of the pagan past. Shares: Mexican Americans, Open_syllabus_project

Kindred Octavia E. Butler · 1979 · ★ 4.3 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more… Shares: Open_syllabus_project, Time Travel

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