Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed

Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora, edited by Saraciea J. Fennell, brings together bestselling and award-winning writers including Elizabeth Acevedo, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Naima Coster, Meg Medina, Mark Oshiro, Julia Alvarez, Ibi Zoboi, and Fennell herself. The fifteen original essays range from ghost stories and superheroes to memories in the kitchen, from addiction and grief to anti-Blackness and finding love — each pushing back on the flattening idea that Latinx identity is a single, uniform experience.

Among the standout pieces is Mark Oshiro's "Eres un Pocho," a second-person account of growing up as a trans-racial adoptee who felt like "an exhibit in a zoo," and other essays that confront colorism, language, and what it means to belong to more than one culture at once.