15 Books by Afro-Latinx Writers You Won't Want to Put Down

Coming out in April 2022, author Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa's novel "A Woman of Endurance" ($28) features a rarely discussed theme: the Puerto Rican Atlantic slave trade. Sure to be a painful but illuminating story, it's set on the island in the 19th century and centered on a woman slave who is forced to breed more slaves. As each baby is taken from her at birth, she loses the faith she once clung to. She must learn what love means in its many forms to overcome the traumas she's endured.