THE LATINA BOOK CLUB

     There are so many good, memorable, inspiring memoirs that it was difficult to choose only 14.   Please feel free to add your favorites to this list.---mcf 1)       RITA MORENO: A MEMOIR by Rita Moreno 2)       HANDBOOK FOR AN UNPREDICTABLE LIFE by Rosie Perez 3)       TAKE THIS MAN: A MEMOIR  by Brando Skyhorse 4)       A CUP OF WATER UNDER MY BED by Daisy Hernandez 5)       CONFESSIONS OF A BOOK BURNER by Lucha Corpi 6)       THE CLOSER by Mariano Rivera 7)       SHATTERED PARADISE:   MEMOIRS OF A NICARAGUAN WAR CHILD by Ileana Araguti 8)       WHEN I WAS PUERTO RICAN by Esmeralda Santiago 9)       DOWN THESE MEAN STREETS by Piri Thomas 10)    ALMOST WHITE: F...

    It's Memoir Week here at The Latina Book Club . Do let us know which memoirs/biographies you would add to our list. Happy Reading. And join us in congratulating Rosie on joining ABC's The View !     Rosie Perez is best known for her accent, her hair and her humor.   She is also a well-known actress, dancer, choreographer, director and activist.   Her humor is her trademark so it comes as a shock to learn that this wonderful funny woman can laugh after enduring such a cruel childhood.   In her HANDBOOK FOR AN UNPREDICTABLE LIFE, Rosie opens a vein and let us into her life – the good, the bad and the very ugly.   From her days in a Brooklyn foster home to being abandoned by her crazy mother to being shuffled among relatives to being discovered by Spike Lee to dancing on Soul Train (How I envy her!) to choreographing for Janet Jackson and Bobby Brown to working with Jennifer Lopez and the Fly Girls to being nominated for an...