The sole collection of non-fiction essays on this list is hot off the presses and it brings together a new generation of New Mexican scholars to reflect on the concept of querencia. Juan Estevan Arellano, for whom the collection is dedicated, defines querencia as “a place where one feels safe, a place from which one’s strength of character is drawn, where one feels at home.” The essays included range from family histories to pop culture representations of Nuevomexicanidad, from La Llorona to community organizing, and many others. The overarching effect of the collection embraces what Chicano writer, José Antonio Burciaga articulates as the “experience of living within, between and sometimes outside of two cultures – the damnation, and salvation, the celebration of it all.”