Publisher: Penguin Teen Canada, August 21st 2021

Format: ebook

Pages: 224

Rating: 5/5 stars

Synopsis (from Goodreads):

Twenty stand-alone short stories, essays, poems, and more from celebrated and award-winning authors make up this YA anthology that explores the Mexican American experience. With works by Francisco X. Stork, Guadalupe Garcia McCall, David Bowles, Rubén Degollado, e.E. Charlton-Trujillo, Diana López, Xavier Garza, Trinidad Gonzales, Alex Temblador, Aida Salazar, Lupe Ruiz-Flores, Sylvia Sanchez Garza, Dominic Carrillo, Angela Cervantes, Carolyn Dee Flores, René Saldaña Jr., Laura Perez, Justine Narro, Daniel García Ordáz, and Anna Meriano.

In this mixed-media collection of short stories, personal essays, poetry, and comics, this celebrated group of authors share the borders they have crossed, the struggles they have pushed through, and the two cultures they continue to navigate as Mexican American. Living Beyond Borders is at once an eye-opening, heart-wrenching, and hopeful love letter from the Mexican American community to today’s young readers. 

My Review:

Thank you Penguin Teen Canada for the copy of this book.
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Read if you like: short stories, own voices stories.
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This collection explores the Mexican American experience and how different people reconcile these two aspects of identity. I usually just like reading short stories and don’t usually love them, but I loved these stories! I usually want more out of the stories but these authors did an amazing job of getting their theme across in the short story. I appreciated reading different perspectives through these stories.
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CW: sexism and racism.