As autoworkers strike across the country, “Hillbilly Highway” and “Black Folk” offer two views of the search for a better life by working-class migrants in the middle of the 20th century.
Santiago Jose Sanchez’ debut novel, “Hombrecito,” follows a young immigrant as he grows up in the United States, struggling to identify with a masculinity he’s never felt and a country he never knew.
Kelsey Norris’s “House Gone Quiet” and Justin C. Key’s “The World Wasn’t Ready for You” share an interest in the ways that being bound shapes our understanding of freedom.