Creative nonfiction, memoir, environmental sustainability.
Combining memoir, historical records, and a blueprint for sustainability, The Deepest Roots shows us how an island population can mature into responsible food stewards and reminds us that innovation, adaptation, diversity, and common sense will help us make wise decisions about our future. And along the way, we learn how food is intertwined with our present but offers a path to a better understanding of the future.
Creative Nonfiction
Essays on Family and Writing The Desert Remembers My Name makes an important contribution to discussions of ethnicity, identity, and the literature of place.”
Fiction
"...a mesmerizing tale... the author explores the fascinating confusions and contradictions plaguing a culture precariously poised between tradition and modernization."
–Booklist
"She never forgot the power of storytelling as testimony."
–The Utne Reader
"Kathleen Alcalá's
Spirits of the Ordinary is an enthralling book..."
–Paul Yamazaki, City Lights Books
"This book entered my dreams."
–Alberto Rios
Short Fiction
"Thoroughly satisfying."
–The New York Times Book Review
"By turns touching, entertaining, and surprising, and uniquely her own."
–Publishers Weekly