THE LATINA BOOK CLUB

    "In the United States immigration is at the heart of the nation's narrative and sense of identity.   Yet we continue to the conflicted by it: armed vigilantes patrol the Rio Grande while undocumented workers find jobs every day watching over our children or delivering food to our door."--Mirta Ojito   "Hate is always looking for another place."   --Joselo Lucero, brother of the murder victim     Journalist and Columbia University Professor Mirta Ojito has written a powerful and compassionate account of the 2008 murder of Marcelo Lucero, an undocumented Ecuadorian immigrant, at the hands of seven teenagers in the All-American town of Patchogue, Long Island, about 60 miles outside New York City.     HUNTING SEASON holds up a mirror to the face of America and what we see is not pretty.    We, a nation of immigrants, are still intolerant of "other" immigrants.   We're racist, prejudiced, hateful, uncaring. (N...

“The half-life of love is forever” Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Díaz turns his remarkable talent to the haunting, impossible power of love – obsessive love, illicit love, fading love, maternal love. At the heart of this collection of short stories is the irrepressible, irresistible Yunior, a young hardhead whose longing for love is equaled only by his recklessness--and by the extraordinary women he loves and loses: artistic Alma; the aging Miss Lora; Magdalena, who thinks all Dominican men are cheaters; and the love of his life, whose heartbreak ultimately becomes his own. Read it, and let us know what you think about the book, about Yunior, about love, about a happy ending.