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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