Las Comadres & Friends Book Club is pleased to announce our books for February 2022.
We invite Readers to join us on Monday, February 28, 8pm ET, for interviews with authors Daniel Loedel and Kathleen Alcala on zoom. Registration link below.
BOOK OF THE MONTH
HADES, ARGENTINA
By Daniel Loedel (Riverhead Books)
In 1976, Tomás Orilla was a medical student in Buenos Aires, where he moved in hopes of reuniting with Isabel, a childhood crush. But the reckless passion that has long drawn him is leading Isabel ever deeper into the ranks of the insurgency fighting an increasingly oppressive regime. Tomás has always been willing to follow her anywhere, to do anything to prove himself. Yet what exactly is he proving, and at what cost to them both?
It will be years before a summons arrives for Tomás, now living as Thomas Shore in New York. It isn’t a homecoming that awaits him, however, so much as an odyssey into the past, an encounter with the ghosts that lurk there, and a reckoning with the fatal gap between who he has become and who he once aspired to be.
CONVERSATIONS WITH BOOK
SPIRITS OF THE ORDINARY: A Tale of Casas Grandes
By Kathleen Alcala (Raven Chronicles Press)
At the turn of the last century, in a small village in northern Mexico, the Caravals have been practicing their Jewish faith in secret. The father Julio, spends his days dabbling with alchemy. His wife, Mariana, cannot speak, but is clairvoyant. Their son is obsessed with his search for gold. Central to the surprising destinies of these characters are the momentous events taking place high in the mountains, at the ancient and sacred cliff dwellings of Casas Grandes. Central to the story is the horrifying impact of the Spanish Inquisition, for 13 generations after all signs of Judaica were wiped from Spanish culture, some members of this family persist, behind bolted doors, in observing and studying Jewish rituals. For them, staying connected to their ancestral faith is paramount, and while each person's path to piety is different, each search proves powerfully moving.
SAVE THE DATE! Monday, February 28, for our Book Club Zoom
Teleconference with the authors.
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