The Latina Book Club is proud to welcome author Graciela Limón , who will tell us how she celebrates her Latinidad. Plus, we’ll learn about her new suspense novel, THE INTRIGUING LIFE OF XIMENA GODOY. When I was a little girl growing up in East Los Angeles, I loved school. You see, I went to Hammel Street School, a public grammar school that had been there since forever, and even better, it was a school where all the kids were Mexican. Most of us were born in the barrio, but others had recently come up with their familias from Mexico. But it was all the same; we all spoke Spanish – on the sly, of course, because the teachers scolded or punished us when they caught us talking, as they said, “funny.” Another thing I loved was that kids took a lunch in a little brown bag, many times exchanging that delicious gordita for a burrito. I loved school because it was hardly a change from home where I lived with my mom, dad and two brothers in a house on a street wh