Bless Me, Ultima | Suggested Reading

Bless Me, Ultima What Do I Read Next?

Victor Martinez's Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida won the 1996 National Book Award for Young People's Fiction. In powerful prose, it tells the story of Manuel Hernandez, a Mexican-American teenager living in a housing project in California, as he comes of age among a battling family and newly emerging passions.

The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, is made up of short vignettes about a young girl, Esperanza, growing up in a Latino section of Chicago, dreaming of the life she will have someday.

Anaya wrote two more novels that, along with Bless Me, Ultima, make up his "New Mexican Trilogy": Heart of Aztlan (1976) and Tortuga (1979). In Heart of Aztlan, a man struggles to provide for his family in a barrio of Albuquerque, and goes on a mythic quest in order to help his community. In Tortuga, a teenaged boy is...
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