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Ruth Behar

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Havana, Cuba

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Memoir, Fiction, Children's

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Average rating: 4.07 · 10,821 ratings · 1,910 reviews · 36 distinct works • Similar authors

	Lucky Broken Girl 3.96 avg rating — 5,078 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Letters from Cuba 4.25 avg rating — 1,903 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Across So Many Seas 4.11 avg rating — 1,775 ratings — published 2024 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart 4.18 avg rating — 516 ratings — published 1997 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tía Fortuna's New Home: A Jewish Cuban Journey by Ruth Behar (Goodreads Author), Devon Holzwarth (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.24 avg rating — 442 ratings — published 2022 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza's Story 3.88 avg rating — 264 ratings — published 1993 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pepita Meets Bebita by Ruth Behar (Goodreads Author), Gabriel Frye-Behar, Maribel Lechuga (Illustrator) 4.07 avg rating — 192 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Traveling Heavy: A Memoir in between Journeys 4.02 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 2013 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba by Ruth Behar (Goodreads Author), Humberto Mayol (Photographer) 3.94 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 2007 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Women Writing Culture by Ruth Behar (Goodreads Author), Deborah A. Gordon (Editor) 4.21 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 1995 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“My life has become a story. One day your life with become a story too.

All we can do is have faith that life leads us where it does for a reason, so we can learn things we didn't know about ourselves. One day you will look back on your suffering and you will find a meaning for it and that will be your story" -Baba”
― Ruth Behar, Lucky Broken Girl

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“Now I know why they call sick people by the word 'patient'. The patient has to have patience. Wait and wait and wait and not lose hope" -Ruthie”
― Ruth Behar, Lucky Broken Girl

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“I was touched by the honesty and courage that I felt it took for you, an academic, to write a book as personal as this one.”
― Ruth Behar, The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart

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Polls

What book should we read in April?

As always, you may write in titles, provided the book is a 2025 Newbery contender and already published.

The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly

32 votes, 26.9%

Ferris by Kate Dicamillo (write-in)

24 votes, 20.2%

Across So Many Seas by Ruth Behar

15 votes, 12.6%

Just Keep Walking by Erin Soderberg Downing

14 votes, 11.8%

Black Girl You Are Atlas by Renée Watson

13 votes, 10.9%

Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor by Alan Gratz

10 votes, 8.4%

Coyote lost and found (write-in)

5 votes, 4.2%

Heroes (write-in)

1 vote, 0.8%

Just Keep Walking by Erin Soderberg Downing (write-in)

1 vote, 0.8%

heroes (write-in)

1 vote, 0.8%

May I add olivetti by Allie millington? (write-in)

1 vote, 0.8%

black girl you are atlas (write-in)

1 vote, 0.8%

One Big Open Sky by Lesa Cline-Ransome (write-in)

1 vote, 0.8%

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