The current Collection Highlights display at Hayden Library is inspired by the MIT Reads spring selection, Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo and features works by Afro-Latinx and Dominican writers. In Clap When You Land, a novel-in-verse that brims with grief and love, National Book Award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo writes about the devastation of loss, the difficulty of forgiveness, and the bittersweet bonds that shape our lives.
You can find the Collection Highlights at Hayden in the middle of the 2nd floor Quiet Reading Room, or you can request a title from our curated list:
- Bendición : the complete poetry of Tato Laviera / Tato Laviera
- Bird of paradise : how I became Latina / Raquel Cepeda
- Brother sister mother explorer : a novel / Jamie Figueroa
- Changó, the biggest badass / Manuel Zapata Olivella
- Daring to write : contemporary narratives by Dominican women / edited by Erika M. Martínez
- Efrain’s secret / Sofia Quintero
- Halsey Street / Naima Coster
- Krik? Krak! / Edwidge Danticat
- Las grandes elegías y otros poemas / Nicolás Guillén
- Letters to my mother / by Teresa Cárdenas
- Love, anger, madness : a Haitian trilogy / Marie Vieux-Chauvet
- A message from Rosa : an African diaspora novel in short stories / Quince Duncan
- Nuestra Señora de la Noche / Mayra Santos-Febres
- Sana Sana / Ariana Brown
- Song of the water saints / Nelly Rosario
- To love and mourn in the age of displacement / Alan Pelaez Lopez
- Wild tongues can’t be tamed : 15 voices from the Latinx diaspora / edited by Saraciea J. Fennell
Have a book in mind to add to this display? Please let us know at tinachan@mit.edu.
