The Modern Latina Book Club voted and we are excited to start reading You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation by best selling author Julissa Arce. Here is a short interview where Julissa talks about the new book and the unrealistic expectations faced by people of color. Synopsis: Bestselling author Julissa Arce calls for a celebration of … [Read more...] about You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation by Julissa Arce #ModernLatinaBookClub
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Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America by Maria Hinojosa #ModernLatinaBookClub
The Modern Latina Book Club selected Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America by Maria Hinojosa for our next book of the month. We start reading this powerful memoir on 3/1/21, to here to join in. Synopsis: “Anyone striving to understand and improve this country should read her story.” —Gloria Steinem, author of My Life on the Road The Emmy … [Read more...] about Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America by Maria Hinojosa #ModernLatinaBookClub
Modern Latina Book Club: More than Ready: Be Strong and Be You . . . and Other Lessons for Women of Color on the Rise by Cecilia Muñoz
Modern Latina Book Club: More than Ready: Be Strong and Be You . . . and Other Lessons for Women of Color on the Rise by Cecilia Muñoz "In More Than Ready, Cecilia Muñoz poignantly captures the challenges that women of color face as they try to compete on an uneven playing field, coupled with uplifting advice from her experiences rising to the height of her profession. Cecilia … [Read more...] about Modern Latina Book Club: More than Ready: Be Strong and Be You . . . and Other Lessons for Women of Color on the Rise by Cecilia Muñoz
Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras #ModernLatinaBookClub
We are excited to announce that the Modern Latina Book Club will be reading Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras. Her novel, Fruit of the Drunken Tree, is a national bestseller and New York Times Editor Pick. This autobiographically inspired story takes place in Bogotá, Colombia during the height of the Pablo Escobar’s drug cartel in the 1990s. The two main … [Read more...] about Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras #ModernLatinaBookClub
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia #ModernLatinaBookClub
The Washington Post wrote that Mexican Gothic is a creepy, intoxicating mystery that’s almost impossible to put down.” And Modern Latina Book Club members are so excited to start reading Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s newly released novel. Synopsis: An isolated mansion. A chillingly charismatic aristocrat. And a brave socialite drawn to expose their treacherous secrets. From … [Read more...] about Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia #ModernLatinaBookClub