Hii I’m a young latina woman struggling through the pains of generational trauma. I’m 22 and I recently realized I inherited my father’s anger and hurt someone I deeply loved. I desperately want to change but it feels because I hurt someone I’m already deep gone, I don’t want to believe this, and I’m looking for books where people explore change, going from rock bottom to success, etc.
For example I really love A Dream Called Home by Reyna Grande because she has similar trauma to me and seeing her get everything she wanted in the end and a partner who’s committed to learning about her culture and help her unlearn toxic cycles is inspiring.
I really want more books like this, because my ex partner was a white man and he also struggled to understand my past which made me feel like I wasn’t normal and I’m bearing a lot of shame because of it. I love latin american literature so anything in that sector would be greatly appreciated, or anything about POC experience in general.
I also loveeeeeee cultural anthropology so anything related to politics systems affecting Latin American culture today, or colonialism etc is very interesting too! I just want to dig deeper into my trauma and understand generational trauma. Thank you <3
by International-Exam84