13 Chicano Lit Must-Reads, In Memory Of Michele Serros

*Some good suggestions for your 2015 reading list. I’m sure some of you may have already read many of these books. But there may be a title here that you haven’t checked off. VL

By Andrea Gompf, Remezcla

A California-born Chicana who didn’t speak much Spanish, Serros was a voice for those who grappled with their cultural identity  – capturing the “ni de aquí ni de allá” feeling that often comes from being second (or third, or fourth) generation in sharply humorous essays, stories and poems. Her writing, most notably Chicana Falsa: And Other Stories of Death, Identity, and Oxnard and How to Be a Chicana Role Model, has come to be regarded as a staple of Chican@ studies syllabi, and Newsweek once dubbed her a “Woman to Watch for the New Century.”

In many ways, Serros was a forerunner for the type of writing and perspective that made websites like ours possible; her explorations of what it means to be Latino/a were deeply insightful, but above all entertaining – a one-two punch. Her humorous point of view even landed her a job writing for the George Lopez sitcom in 2002.

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