LAS COMADRES & FRIENDS BOOK CLUB ANNOUNCES MARCH 2023 BOOKS

 

The Las Comadres & Friends Book Club is now Sweet 16! 

Our mission continues -- to promote the work of Latino authors to every book lover, to bring our community to bookstores, and to support our writers. We invite you to be part of our year-long celebration. 

The Sweet 16 celebration continues with our March books:

BOOK OF THE MONTH

THE MAN WHO COULD MOVE CLOUDS: A MEMOIR

by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Publisher:  Doubleday

BOOK SUMMARY:  Interweaving family stories more enchanting than those in any novel, resurrected Colombian history, and her own deeply personal reckonings with the bounds of reality, Rojas Contreras writes her way through the incomprehensible and into her inheritance. The result is a luminous testament to the power of storytelling as a healing art and an invitation to embrace the extraordinary.

AUTHOR BIO:    INGRID ROJAS CONTRERAS was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Her debut novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree was the silver medal winner in First Fiction from the California Book Awards, and a New York Times editor's choice. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Believer, and Zyzzyva, among others. She lives in California. Visit her on www.ingridrojascontreras.com.

CONVERSATIONS WITH BOOK

RIVER WOMAN, RIVER DEMON

by Jennifer Givhan

Publisher:  Blackstone Publishing

BOOK SUMMARY:  A psychological thriller that weaves together the threads of folk magick with personal and cultural empowerment, River Woman, River Demon is a mysterious incantation of reckoning with the past and claiming one's unique power and voice.

AUTHOR BIO:  JENNIFER GIVHAN, a National Endowment for the Arts and PEN/Rosenthal Emerging Voices fellow, is a Mexican American writer and activist from the Southwestern desert. She is the author of four full-length poetry collections. Her honors include the Frost Place Latinx Scholarship, a National Latinx Writers' Conference Scholarship, the Lascaux Review Poetry Prize, Phoebe Journal's Greg Grummer Poetry Prize chosen by Monica Youn, the Pinch Poetry Prize chosen by Ada Limón, and ten Pushcart nominations. Visit her at www.JenniferGivhan.com.

For full Book Summaries and Author Bios, please visit:   www.latinolit.com.

And SAVE THE DATE for Monday, March 27, for the Las Comadres & Friends Book Club Teleconference with live interviews of authors Ingrid Rojas Contreras and Jennifer Givhan.

Register early for the teleconference and you may win a free book:  https://latinolit.com/join-teleconference/

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LAS COMADRES CALENDAR OF EVENTS -- MARCH & APRIL 2023

All Comadres welcome.  We will update this Calendar the first of each month.  

All events via zoom.  Check your time zones. 

Links will be emailed to all Comadres and registrants. 

CALENDAR OF EVENTS 

MARCH 2023

March 1 (Wed) -- Las Comadres & Friends Book Club announces March books

The Man Who Could Move Clouds by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

River Woman, River Demon by Jennifer Givhan

March 1 (Wed) -- El Club del Libro holds its Spring Book Club meeting, 5pm PT

Flor de un Arbol by Carolina A. Herrera 

March 15 (Wed) -- Central Coast Regional Comadrazo

March 18 (Sat)  -- Pacific Coast Reginal Comadrazo

March 27 (Mon) -- Las Comadres & Friends Book Club Teleconference, 8pm ET

              Live interviews with authors Ingrid Rojas Contreras and Jennifer Givhan

APRIL 2023

April 3 (Mon) -- Las Comadres & Friends Book Club announces April books

Cenizas: Poems by Cynthia Guardado

Valley of Shadows by Rudy Ruiz

God Is Just Like Me by Karen Valentin

April 24 (Mon) -- Las Comadres & Friends Book Club Teleconference, 8pm ET

              Live interviews with authors Cynthia Guardado, Rudy Ruiz and Karen Valentin

April 29 (Sat) -- WORLDWIDE COMADRAZO 2023, 1pm CT

SPECIAL GUEST: DOLORES HUERTA

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:   DR. MONICA MUŇOZ MARTINEZ

THE NORA AWARDS WINNERS ANNOUNCED

For Last month's activities, click here:

  https://comadresconnect.blogspot.com/2022/12/las-comadres-calendar-of-events-january.html 

NOT A COMADRE? 

Join for free here:  https://lascomadres.com/lco/join-las-comadres/

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REGISTER NOW! CELEBRATING OUR AFRO LATINA IDENTITY -- THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 8pm ET, via zoom

 

Join Las Comadres Para Las Americas and Latinx in Publishing in 

Celebrating Our Afro Latina Identity  

during Black History Month!

Our panelists include amazing Afro Latinas in Academia, Literature, Poetry, Art and Culture.

Date:                  Thursday, February 16

Time:                 8:00pm ET   (7pm CT, 6pm MT, 5pm PT, 9pm PR)

Location:          Zoom (Virtual)

Register HERE to receive the zoom link for Thursday, February 16, 8pm ET.

(If the link doesn’t work, email us at info@lascomadres.com.)

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PANELISTS

Carmen Bardeguez-Brown is a poet, a writer, a teacher, a traveler.  Carmen was a teacher and principal with the New York City Board of Education, as well as Co-Founder and Former High School Principal of School for Excellence Education of Morris Campus Educational Farm Inc. She is the author of FOR THE LOVE OF COOKING: CHEF TAO, A MEMOIR, and her poetry has appeared in several anthologies including ¡MANTECA! An Anthology of Afro-Latino Poets. In 2019, Carmen was vacationing in Thailand when the COVID pandemic prevented her from returning home, she decided to settle in and work on her writing. She still is.  Learn more about Carmen at https://cbbpoetry.wordpress.com/.

Raesha Cartagena is President of PRIDA, the Puerto Rican Institute for the Development of the Arts. Their mission is to promote and provide support for Puerto Rican artists.  Raesha is also a Public Relations Specialist at FortuneTimes Group.  Visit PRIDA at www.prida.org.

Jackie Melendez (Moderator) is the New Jersey Comadres Network Co-Facilitator, and Social Media Specialist for Las Comadres Para Las Americas. Visit Las Comadres at www.lascomadres.com.

Ivelisse Rodriguez’ debut short story collection, LOVE WAR STORIES, was a 2019 PEN/Faulkner finalist and a 2018 Foreword Reviews INDIES Finalist. Ivelisse is a contributing arts editor for the Boston Review, where she acquires fiction. She is a 2022 Letras Boricuas Fellow, a Tanne Foundation award winner, a Kimbilio Fellow, and a VONA/ Voices alum.  Learn more about her at www.ivelisserodriguez.com.

 

Jennese Alicia Torres, Esq., is a New York licensed attorney, admitted to the US Supreme Court, graduate of Howard University School of Law. She is also an author, entrepreneur, motivational speaker, mentor, community organizer, and mother. Her semi-autobiographical children's books began with her memoir, I AM MY GRANDMOTHER’S DAUGHTER.  Learn more about Jennese at http://LaDivaLatina.com/ and follow her on Facebook @Ladivalatina.

 

 Learn more about Las Comadres Para Las Americas at www.lascomadres.com.

 Learn more about Latinx in Publishing at www.latinxinpublishing.com.