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BOOK OF MONTH: THE HOUSE OF IMPOSSIBLE BEAUTIES BY JOSEPH CASSARA

    Ecco/ Harper Collins It was the kind of freedom you felt when someone was looking at you and finally saw what others couldn’t see because it had been bottled away for so long. ---Angel The Latina Book Club congratulates author Joseph Cassara on his brilliant debut, and we are pleased to choose THE HOUSE OF IMPOSSIBLE BEAUTIES as our Book of the Month for Pride Month. Inspired by the documentary Paris is Burning , and because he never found any books with “real” gay Latino characters, Cassara wrote his own story.   Set during the 80s and 90s when disco and AIDS reigned supreme, THE HOUSE OF IMPOSSIBLE BEAUTIES is the story of four Latino gay / transgender youths looking for the freedom to be true to themselves.   Angel, Venus, Juanito and Daniel become a family against all odds. Life is hard for them, but amid the abuse, violence and addiction, they find strength in each other. We love that THE HOUSE OF IMPOSSIBLE BEAUTIES is about Latinos, that t