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ONE BRILLIANT FLAME
By Joy Castro
Lake Union Publishing
BOOK SUMMARY: Key West, 1886. The booming cigar industry makes it the most prosperous city in Florida. As a rebel base for the anticolonial insurgency in Cuba, it’s also a tinderbox for six young friends with ambitious dreams. They all brim with secrets: Zenaida, the daughter of an assassinated Havana journalist; power-hungry Sofia, who plots a fast track to success; Chaveta, Zenaida’s loyal comrade in arms who fearlessly flouts tradition; Feliciano, a charismatic Spanish anarchist; Líbano, the cafetero, silent and watchful; and Maceo, a daring guerrilla soldier who fights a brutal undertow. As lives intertwine, revolution smolders, and passions ignite, the bustling coral island is set to explode.
AUTHOR BIO: Born in Miami, raised in England and West Virginia, and educated in Texas, Joy Castro is the award-winning author of the memoir THE TRUTH BOOK, two literary thrillers set in post-Katrina New Orleans, essay and short fiction collections.
ALBORADA (DAWN): A CROSS-CULTURAL MEMOIR IN POETRY
By Nylda Dieppa
Orange Blossom Publishing
BOOK SUMMARY: In Alborada (Dawn): A Cross-Cultural Memoir in Poetry, Nylda Dieppa sketches the formative and transformative experiences of her lifetime-from childhood on the island of Puerto Rico through maturity in the continental United States-as paralleled by the sun's passage through the times of the day. From the dawning innocence of a girl's first crush alongside the rise of a young woman's longing to belong and be loved, Dieppa shines daylight on the anguish and delights of both growing up and parenting at every age. Her lyrical and narrative poems highlight the shadows cast by culture shock, and they reveal the encroaching darkness of sorrow and betrayal as the sun sets on a thirty-eight-year marriage. Yet ALBORADA also illuminates the wonder of deliverance from midnight's despair to the hope and wholeness of a new day's dawn.
AUTHOR BIO: Nylda Dieppa is an award-winning author, poet, speaker and motivator. Her novel, ALBORADA, has won the Royal Palm Literary Award from the Florida Writers Association and an International Latino Book Award for Cover Design.
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SAVE THE DATE! Monday, January 29, 2024 --- for the Book Club’s Teleconference where we’ll interview authors Joy Castro and Nylda Dieppa.
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Here is the link to last month’s interviews with authors Melania Luisa Marte and V.Castro on Las Comadres YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/
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