THE LATINA BOOK CLUB

    Vintage Books All is not lost. The future remains unwritten. It is ours to shape.       ---Carolina De Robertis Love not hate makes America great Fight for Democracy / Fight like a girl I’m with her & her & her & her & her & her & her & her & her & her Viva la vulva We can we will I have been to the future and                                         We won Resist defend love The seas are rising but so are we         ---signs from the Women’s March on DC The Latina Book Club has chosen RADICAL HOPE , an anthology of letters of “Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times” as its Book of the Month.  This anthology, edited by author and activist C...

The Comadres, Compadres & Friends Book Club Meeting was today, and we had quite a lively discussion about Carolina De Robertis' THE INVISIBLE MOUNTAIN.  Everyone loved the book.  It's poetic rhythm; it's imagery; the characters; well, everything. Of course, every one of us had different views of the book.  For instance, I thought the whole book was the letter Salome wrote to Victoria to tell her of her paternity and her family history.  What do you think?  Here are the questions the New York City Book Club discussed.  Feel free to use these questions to launch your own discussion, and note that there are no right or wrong answers. DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: What does the title of the book mean?  what invisible mountain? where?  And do all the characters "see" the same mountain? The story begins with a miracle.  What other miracles can you find in the book? Is there a hidden meaning in the names of the women:...

JOIN US!    The Comadres, Compadres and Friends Book Club invite you to their February book club meeting on February 18 at the Borders Bookstore at Columbus Circle at 6:30PM. Book of the Month:  THE INVISIBLE MOUNTAIN by Carolina De Robertis Book summary:  On the first day of the year 1900, a small town deep in the Uruguayan countryside gathers to witness a miracle — the mysterious reappearance of Pajarita, a lost infant who will grow up to begin a lineage of fiercely independent women in the capital, Montevideo. Her daughter, Eva, a fragile yet ferociously stubborn beauty intent on becoming a poet, overcomes an early, shattering betrayal to embark on a most unconventional path. And Eva’s daughter, Salomé, awakens to both her sensuality and political convictions amidst the violent turmoil of the late 1960s. From Perón’s glittering Buenos Aires to the rustic hills of Rio de Janeiro, from the haven of a Montevideo butchershop to U.S. embassy halls, The Invisib...