Mad Creek Books
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Men I Hate: A Memoir in Essays
$23.95 Add to cartA rare spouse’s perspective on a partner’s transition that asks what happens to us when the people we are closest to change.
Can a lesbian who loves a trans man still call herself a lesbian? Against- Series: 21st Century Essays
- Author: D’Amico, Lynette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0814259693
- Language: English
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Place Envy: Essays in Search of Orientation
$24.95 Add to cartA queer, Jewish writer searches for belonging across countries, identities, and histories in a moving collection of essays about orientation and home.
Growing up in places where his family had no past- Series: Machete
- Author: Lowenthal, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: February 09 2026
- ISBN10: 0814259669
- Language: English
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My Prisoner and Other Stories
$19.95 Add to cartSet largely in the Rust Belt of the 1990s and early 2000s, My Prisoner and Other Stories gives us protagonists who repeatedly confront helplessness in the face of others’ suffering. A teenage girl tri… [more below]
- Series: Journal Non/Fiction Prize
- Author: McAndrew, Tyler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: September 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0814259510
- Language: English
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Lake Song: A Novel in Stories
$22.95 Add to cartSelected by Deesha Philyaw as winner of the AWP Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction
The linked stories of Lake Song, set in the fictional town of Kinder Falls in New York’s Finger Lakes region, span d- Series: Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction
- Author: Bannatyne, Lesley Pratt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0814259545
- Language: English
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The Translator’s Daughter: A Memoir
$24.95 Add to cartBorn in Taiwan, Grace Loh Prasad was two years old when the threat of political persecution under Chiang Kai-shek’s dictatorship drove her family to the United States, setting her up to become an acci… [more below]
- Series: Machete
- Author: Prasad, Grace Loh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0814258972
- Language: English
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From Cocinas to Lucha Libre Ringsides: A Latinx Comics Anthology
$22.95 Add to cartIn this comics anthology full of humor and heart, writers and artists from across the US pay tribute to the ways food and sports endure as touchstones in the Latin American diaspora. In the vein of Fr… [more below]
- Series: Latinographix
- Author: Aldama, Frederick Luis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0814259480
- Language: English
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Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology
$24.95 Add to cart“An outstanding showcase of contemporary Latinx authors exploring identity through the conventions of sci-fi, fantasy, and magical realism. Themes of family, migration, and community resonate througho… [more below]
- Author: Hernandez, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 08 2021
- ISBN10: 0814257984
- Language: English
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Women Surrounded by Water: A Memoir
$19.95 Add to cartGrowing up in Puerto Rico, Patricia Coral was surrounded by women who fought for their needs amid the demands of domesticity and who were dismissed and judged when they rejected any predetermined path… [more below]
- Series: Machete
- Author: Coral, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0814259251
- Language: English
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Mistaken for an Empire: A Memoir in Tongues
$21.95 Read more“As an adult, [Imperial] attempted what no one else had done: translating [‘The White Man’s Burden’] into Tagalog. These efforts led Imperial to reflect on her many (often disorienting) moves between … [more below]
- Series: 21st Century Essays
- Author: Imperial, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0814258638
- Language: English
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Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer: Undocumented Vignettes from a Pre-American Life
$19.95 Read moreIn this hybrid memoir, Alberto Ledesma wonders, At what point does a long-time undocumented immigrant become an American in the making? From undocumented little boy to “hyper documented” university pr… [more below]
- Series: Latinographix
- Author: Ledesma, Alberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 127
- Publish Date: September 08 2017
- ISBN10: 0814254403
- Language: English
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CHI Boy: Native Sons and Chicago Reckonings
$21.95 Read moreIn Chi Boy, Keenan Norris melds memoir, cultural criticism, and literary biography to indelibly depict Chicago–from the Great Migration to the present day–as both a cradle of black intellect, art, a… [more below]
- Series: Machete
- Author: Norris, Keenan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0814258530
- Language: English
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The Registry of Forgotten Objects: Stories
$22.95 Add to cartIn this haunting debut collection, best-selling author Miles Harvey probes the mysterious relationship between human longings and the secret lives of inanimate objects. In one story, an artist discove… [more below]
- Series: Non/Fiction Collection Prize
- Author: Harvey, Miles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0814259146
- Language: English
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Quite Mad: An American Pharma Memoir
$23.95 Add to cartDiagnosed with severe anxiety, PTSD, and OCD in her early twenties, Sarah Fawn Montgomery spent the next ten years seeking treatment and the language with which to describe the indescribable consequen… [more below]
- Series: Machete
- Author: Montgomery, Sarah Fawn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 21 2018
- ISBN10: 0814254861
- Language: English
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Praying Naked
$14.95 Add to cartThrough language both reverent and reckless, Katie Condon’s debut collection renders the body a hymn. Praying Naked is Eden in the midst of the fall, the meat of the apple sweet as sex. In this collec… [more below]
- Series: Osu Journal Award Poetry
- Author: Condon, Katie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: March 19 2020
- ISBN10: 0814255736
- Language: English
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Love’s Long Line
$19.95 Add to cartSophfronia Scott turns an unflinching eye on her life to deliver a poignant collection of essays ruminating on faith, motherhood, race, and the search for meaningful connection in an increasingly dis- Series: 21st Century Essays
- Author: Scott, Sophfronia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 11 2018
- ISBN10: 0814254632
- Language: English
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Sex Depression Animals: Poems
$16.95 Add to cart“This bewitching debut delivers everything the title promises and more.” —Electric Literature
In SEX DEPRESSION ANIMALS, Mag Gabbert redefines the bestiary in fiery, insistent, and resistant terms.- Series: Journal Cbwheeler Poetry Prize
- Author: Gabbert, Mag
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: March 13 2023
- ISBN10: 0814258611
- Language: English
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How to Make a Slave and Other Essays
$19.95 Add to cartFinalist, National Book Award in Nonfiction
“The essays in this collection are restless, brilliant an
Winner, Massachusetts Book Award
A Book of the Year pick from Kirkus, BuzzFeed, and Literary Hub- Series: 21st Century Essays
- Author: Walker, Jerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 30 2020
- ISBN10: 081425599X
- Language: English
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Con Papá / With Papá
$16.95 Read moreCon pap? todo es posible! Con ilustraciones divertidas e im?genes ricas, este amable libro biling?e para las edades de 3-8 celebra a los padres, les ni?es y la identidad Latinx mientras lleva a los le… [more below]
- Series: Latinographix
- Author: Aldama, Frederick Luis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: August 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0814215211
- Language: English
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Tales from La Vida: A Latinx Comics Anthology
$19.95 Add to cartIn the Latinx comics community, there is much to celebrate today, with more Latinx comic book artists than ever before. The resplendent visual-verbal storyworlds of these artists reach into and radica
- Series: Latinographix
- Author: Aldama, Frederick Luis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: September 14 2018
- ISBN10: 0814254934
- Language: English
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Secrets of the Sun: A Memoir
$19.95 Add to cartMako Yoshikawa’s father, Shoichi, was a man of contradictions. He grew up fabulously wealthy in prewar Japan but spent his final years living in squalor; he was a proper Japanese man who craved societ… [more below]
- Series: 21st Century Essays
- Author: Yoshikawa, Mako
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 08 2024
- ISBN10: 081425893X
- Language: English
