Join the Modern Latina Book Club as we explore Isabel Allende’s latest book The Wind Knows My Name. The book shares the story of the lives of a Jewish boy escaping Nazi-occupied Europe and a mother and daughter fleeing twenty-first-century El Salvador intersect in this ambitious, intricate novel about war and immigration. In the author’s notes Isabel shares where this … [Read more...] about The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende #ModernLatinaBookClub
Book Reviews
Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine #ModernLatinaBookClub
This month the Modern Latina Book Club will read Women of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine. You don’t want to miss reading this “dazzling, cinematic, intimate, lyrical” epic of betrayal, love, and fate that spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano family in the American West. Synopsis: There is one every generation, a seer who keeps the stories.Luz “Little Light” … [Read more...] about Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine #ModernLatinaBookClub
What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jiménez #ModernLatinaBookClub
One cold November day in 1996, 13-year-old Ruthy doesn’t come home from track practice after school. Over a decade later, a woman who looks just like Ruthy appears on reality TV show “Cat Fight,” going by the name Ruby. “What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez,” the compelling true-crime-style debut novel by Claire Jimenez follows the Ramirez family as they pick up the search for Ruthy. … [Read more...] about What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jiménez #ModernLatinaBookClub
Braided [Un]Be-Longing by Rosanna Alvarez #ModernLatinaBookClub
Braided [Un]Be-Longing is the long-anticipated debut collection from the sincere and thought-provoking poet Rosanna Alvarez. A braided cultural journey across space and time, the heart-felt collection intricately weaves together the most unanticipated spaces of poetic legacy found in the everyday and in everybody. The poems read like a complicated love letter to community, … [Read more...] about Braided [Un]Be-Longing by Rosanna Alvarez #ModernLatinaBookClub
Our Otherness Is Our Strength: Wisdom from the Boogie Down Bronx by Andrea Navedo #ModernLatinaBookClub
We are excited to announce our next reading Our Otherness Is Our Strength: Wisdom from the Boogie Down Bronx by Andrea Navedo. Actress Andrea Navedo, best known for her role as Xiomara, Jane’s mother, on The CW’s Jane the Virgin shares hard-earned wisdom from the boogie down Bronx. Andrea didn’t get to see many positive portrayals of Latinas in the media growing up. So … [Read more...] about Our Otherness Is Our Strength: Wisdom from the Boogie Down Bronx by Andrea Navedo #ModernLatinaBookClub