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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, family, and […]
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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 […]
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Dona Cleanwell Leaves Home: Stories by Ana Castillo #ModernLatinaBookClub
Looking for the first summer read, join the Modern Latina Book Club read Dona Cleanwell Leaves Home: Stories by Ana Castillo starting 6/5/23. Literary legend Ana Castillo explores the secrets that are kept within households and the women they impact the most in this breakout collection that cements her place as a leading voice in feminist fiction.
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Violeta by Isabel Allende #ModernLatinaBookClub
We are excited to start 2023 reading Isabel Allende’s novel Violeta. The epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century. Join the Modern Latina Book Club as we read this enthralling saga about a passion-filled life.
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A Ballad of Love and Glory: A Novel by Reyna Grande #ModernLatinaBookClub
We are so excited to end 2022 with this month’s book club reading “A Ballad of Love and Glory: A Novel” by California author Reyna Grande. Reyna shares how she wrote this novel to learn more about the war, or invasion of Mexico and to better understand the U.S.-Mexican border. In this novel, the reader is taken to the year 1846 when the war is intensifying and tells the story of a Mexican nurse who leaves her family’s ranch and an Irish soldier based on the real life Saint Patrick’s Battalion who deserts the U.S. Army to fight on the Mexican side.