THE LATINA BOOK CLUB

     The Latina Book Club's mission is to promote Latina / Latino authors. We do this through book reviews, author interviews, publicity announcements, book of the month selections, etc. A new popular feature we added this year is " Writers Wednesdays ." The first Wednesday of each month, we will feature a writer talking about ...writing.        Note:   Joao’s translator Karen Bennett will present A TRAGÉDIA DE FIDEL CASTRO AND ITS AMERICAN AVATAR at the international conference – Version, Subversion: translation, the canon and its discontents--An International Conference on Literary Translation – at the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto on December 12-14 in Portugal.   Click here to see the conference’s program.   Happy Reading!         I admit it; I want to punch my readers, but before I do, I try to make them laugh." – Joao Throwing a literary punch by João Cer...

Nowadays nobody is interested in miracles. They prefer to play the lottery, visit casinos or rob banks . – God   I’m tempted to believe that the history of mankind would have followed the same path if I had come to earth or not.   – Christ   In these times in which our people doubt their own abilities and at times seem to want to give up, it is vital that the person governing them shows with his own example that we can make it. –John F. Kennedy   History will absolve me. –Fidel Castro         THE TRAGEDY OF FIDEL CASTRO is satire at its finest.   It’s thought-provoking, sardonic, ridiculous, engaging, outragerous and hysterical.        This book is a humorous twist on the Cuban missile crisis of the 1960s.   Cerqueira has created an alternate universe where no one is who they seem, except Fidel.   And, yet all the characters are the same.     The irony.   Book S...