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...

Available in hardcover, e-book, Kindle and audiobook – read by Luis! Little, Brown   Nov 28, 2011 The saga of THE HUMMINGBIRD'S DAUGHTER continues in America BOOK SUMMARY : After the bloody Tomochic rebellion, Teresita Urrea, beloved healer and "Saint of Cabora," flees with her father to Arizona. But their plans are derailed when she once again is claimed as the spiritual leader of the Mexican Revolution. Besieged by pilgrims and pursued by assassins, Teresita embarks on a journey through turn-of-the-century industrial America-New York, San Francisco, St. Louis. She meets immigrants and tycoons, European royalty and Cuban poets, all waking to the new American century. And as she decides what her own role in this modern future will be, she must ask herself: can a saint fall in love? Luis Urrea on QUEEN OF AMERICA : This is the sequel to THE HUMMINGBIRD’S DAUGHTER. It’s a personal favorite because I feel I made some happy forward moves in my writing. It is, by ...

Luis Alberto Urrea has won numerous awards for his poetry, fiction and essays. He was a 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist for non-fiction and is a member of the Latino Literature Hall of Fame. His novels include, THE HUMMINGBIRD’S DAUGHTER and INTO THE BEAUTIFUL NORTH. THE DEVIL’S HIGHWAY, which was named a Best Book of the Year by many publications, has been optioned for a film by acclaimed Mexican director Luis Mandoki and is to star Antonio Banderas. Luis was born in Tijuana, Mexico, to a Mexican father and an America mother. He graduated from the University of California at San Diego and did his graduate studies at the University of Colorado-Boulder. He has taught writing and fiction workshops at Harvard, and is now teaching at the University of Illinois-Chicago. To learn more about this writer, visit him at http://www.luisurrea.com/ . This sequel to THE HUMMINGBIRD'S DAUGHTER will be out in December 2011.

MAY IS LATINO BOOK MONTH! To honor Latino Authors and books, we are giving away THREE books courtesy of the  Hatchette Book Group . TELL US:    WHAT LATINO BOOK ARE YOU READING OR LAST READ? Leave a comment --- AND your email address --- and you'll be entered to win THREE Latino Books from the selection below:  Try to Remember By Iris Gomez A stunning debut about a young girl who is her parent's translator, family peacemaker and brothers' keeper.  See how she gains confidence, educates herself and learns to walk the line between the traditional Latina woman and the modern one. Hot (broke) Messes By Nancy Trejos The true story of how this financial expert falls into so much debt that she must turn to her parent's for a loan.  Nancy writes about her journey towards financial freedom and how to avoid the pitfalls. Waking Up in the Land of Glitter By Kathy Cano-Murillo The Crafty Chica's debut novel about family,...