El Paso by Jazmine Ulloa (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️) (opens in new tab)

*El Paso* is a heartfelt, beautifully written tale that manages to connect the city's history to that of her family's, other migrant families and the dynamics of immigration woven deeply into the fabric of the United States. I knew so little of this history and it was refreshing to learn about it — I knew El Paso in the abstract. The name, Beto O'Rourke, At the Drive-In, the shooting at the Walmart, I knew these things, but I didn't know what made the city what it is. Jazmine Ulloa manages to...