THE LATINA BOOK CLUB

Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz is incontestably Latin America's foremost beloved poet.  THE COLLECTED POEMS OF OCTAVIO PAZ (New Directions) is a landmark bilingual gathering of all the poetry he has published in book form since 1952, the year of his premier long poem,  Sunstone  ( Piedra de Sol )―here translated anew by Eliot Weinberger―made its appearance.  Here’s an excerpt: a sudden presence like a burst of song, like the wind singing in a burning building, a glance that holds the world and all its seas and mountains dangling in the air, body of light filtered through an agate, thighs of light, belly of light, the bays, the solar rock, cloud-colored body, color of a brisk and leaping day, the hour sparkles and has a body, the world is visible through your body, transparent through your transparency. -- Sunstone , Octavio Paz ABOUT THE AUTHOR:    Octavio Paz  (1914-1998) was born in Mexico City...

   Lucky 7!    The Latina Book Club is proud to release its 7 th Annual Books of the Year List . This year’s Books of the Year have something for everyone and for every age -- fiction, young adult, historical novels, memoirs, children, horror, mystery, scifi, short stories, LGBTQ, poetry, graphic novels and more!   We are just sorry we couldn’t include every book by and for Latinos published this year. We are super excited to see that many of the books on our list are being published in Spanish, like Nina Moreno’ s Don’t Date Rosa Santos and Carolina De Robertis ’ Cantoras; and one – Elizabeth Acevedo’s With The Fire On High – may even become a movie.   Wepa! Congratulations again to our literary award winners, including Meg Medina who won the John Newberry Medal for outstanding contribution to children’s literature; Sandra Cisneros who won the PEN/Nabokov Award for (Lifetime) Achievement in International Literature; and  Eli...

The Latina Book Club is a proud reviewer for Multicultural Children’s Book Day , which celebrates its fifth anniversary this year.  Below is our review of Anne Broyles new bilingual children’s book. # ReadYourWorld Pelican Publishing Company Translated by Maru Cortes ARTURO AND THE BEINVENIDO FEAST by Anne Broyles is a delightful, heart-warming bilingual children’s book about family, love and bienvenida / welcome.  In this new book, Arturo and his grandmother, Abue Rosa, are preparing a feast to welcome his aunt’s fiancé to the family. However, when Abue Rosa doesn’t feel well and must lay down, Arturo doesn’t want to disturb her and so he takes over the menu with delicious results. As the author states: Food is one of the ways families share love.  Readers will love Arturo’s generous heart and innocent independence.  They’ll also appreciate the warm and colorful illustrations by KE Lewis, and the simple recipes that complete the story.  ...