THE LATINA BOOK CLUB

        Every Wednesday   The Latina Book Club   features an excerpt from an exciting new book written by a Latino author or for a Latino audience. This week we are highlighting   DYSFUNCTIONAL MALES by Fernando Sdrigotti.  It’s an exciting collection—a little outrageous, a little pathetic but then such are the tales of men. Happy Reading.  Read Latino. La Casita Grande EXCERPT DYSFUNCTIONAL MALES by Fernando Sdrigotti How would a real man, say Steve McQueen, have reacted? Grabbing him by the neck, pulling him off the wheelchair, and smashing him headfirst against the ground? I don’t think so. Perhaps just graciously hiding the pain on the leg with a handsome grin, leaning against the first available wall, lighting up and smoking away for a while. What’s very clear is that he wouldn’t have stammered a few pathetic angry words — Steve McQueen wouldn’t have released all his passive aggressio...

    I have always been a daydreamer. But I will not rest until one dream is made real: that we might reimagine what it is to be a man, that we reimagine what it means to say, 'man up.'   --- Carlos Andrés Gómez     MAN UP is a powerful book that challenges the traditional image of the Latino “macho man.”   Heck, it challenges the traditional images of “every man”, especially the American male.     It’s raw, honest and hopeful.   Gómez opens up to readers and exposes his greatest fears and vulnerabilities.   Nothing is off-limits.   He talks about his family, heritage, sexuality, and relationships.   This book is about growth and transformation, about courage and strength, about redefining the concept of masculinity.   Gómez is the son of a white mother and a Colombian father.   He is fair with green eyes, but with his last name and his heritage, people assumed his father was a drug dealer.   ...