When the murals painted on the walls of her Brooklyn neighborhood start to change and fade in front of her, Sierra Santiago realizes that something strange is going on--then she discovers her Puerto Rican family are shadowshapers and finds herself in a battle with an evil anthropologist for the lives of her family and friends. —Brian M., Clinton Hill Library

A bold, wry, and intimate graphic memoir about American identity, interracial families, and the realities that divide us. —Brian M., Clinton Hill Library

Animated by a restless inner questioning, these poems meditate on the forces that moor the self and set it in motion, from immigration to travel to estranging losses and departures. The sensual worlds here--colors, smells, tastes, and changing landscapes--bring to life questions about the self as seer and the self as seen. —Brian M., Clinton Hill Library

This beautiful, deeply urgent novel about one undocumented family's struggle to make it in NYC in the 1990s shows the lengths one woman is willing to go to build a new life, and offers a vivid rendering of the American immigrant experience. —Brian M., Clinton Hill Library

YA. Choi was born in Seoul, but now lives in Brooklyn. This book is about a Brooklyn bodega worker who just can’t get it together. He spends his time restocking the shelves and thinking of snack and sneaker pairings for his blog. What sneaker goes with a Taki? One night he meets, and hits it off with, the most famous, most beautiful female popstar in music. What could go wrong? —Jessica S., Crown Heights Library

This brave, stirring portrait of a Jamaican woman who leaves her daughter behind for a new life in America, makes for a haunting depiction of immigration and womanhood, and the silent threads of love stretching across years and oceans. —Brian M., Clinton Hill Library