THE LATINA BOOK CLUB

   The Latina Book Club is Celebrating Cuba this week. Check out these books from Cuban American writers and / or with Cuban American protagonists.  There is a book for everyone from fiction to biographies to children’s books to romance to young adult. Note this list is by no means complete, but it will get you started.  Happy Reading! BOOKS BY CUBAN AMERICAN WRITERS 1.     A CUP OF WATER UNDER MY BED by Daisy Hernández (Beacon Press) 2.      BURN BABY BURN by Meg Medina (Candlewick) 3.     CUBA IN SPLINTERS: 11 STORIES FROM A NEW CUBA edited by Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo (OR Books) 4.     CUBAN-AMERICAN, DANCING ON THE HYPHEN by Amarilys Gacio Rassler (SPS Publications) 5.     DALIA’S WONDROUS HAIR by Laura Lacámara (Piňata Books/ Arte Publico Press) 6.     EVERYONE LEAVES by Wendy Guerra (Amazon Crossing) 7.     HOW TO LEAV...

   The Latina Book Club  invites you to check out our new Cover Reveals feature. Every Saturday, we'll bring you a new book cover from a Latino author. Let us know what you think.  Enjoy. This book made its debut September 23! WHITE LIGHT by Vanessa Garcia Shade Mountain Press www.vanessagarcia.org Read our review of WHITE LIGHT by clicking here . SUMMARY:   Just before her father's sudden death, Cuban-American artist Veronica Gonzalez is offered her first gallery exhibit, a real chance to break into the art world. Torn between the need to mourn and the pressure to create new artwork, Veronica is propelled into a fever-dream of productivity and grief, amidst memories of her tumultuous relationship with her colorful but infuriating Cuban émigré father, a volatile man of outsize appetites and passions who never stopped longing for his homeland.

    White (light) only seems like a blank canvas, like shock, or a new slate, a void.  But it’s not. White is just the opposite, it’s really all colors locked in one. Separate by a prism, there it is, made visible, every single one, right in front of me.  Maybe white is the true color of mourning. And all I have to do is let the colors unfurl as they might, as they want to, and with whatever force, or pain, or joy.  This is the process, just like filling the canvas. ---Veronica Shade Mountain Press Lush. Vibrant. A masterful debut by Vanessa Garcia. WHITE LIGHT is about art and life, love and loss, family and lovers.  Like a painting, this story is layered and colored by passions, dreams, nightmares, memories and emotions.   Readers will empathize with Veronica as she weathers the ups and downs of grief and success, which make the ultimate triumphs so much sweeter.  SUMMARY:  Veronica Gonzalez is a Cuban-A...