THE LATINA BOOK CLUB

ABRAMS PRESS The brotherhood of Beast Riders is lifting me in a huge hum of instructions, with great ferocity of purpose, with a kind of love new to me.    Love that says , Stranger, we are in this together. --Manuel The Latina Book Club is proud to be a blogger reviewer for Multicultural Children’s Book Day – January 31, 2020.   This year’s book review is of the BEAST RIDER by Tony Johnston and Maria Elena Fontanot de Rhoads (Abrams Press).   Views expressed are our own.  Haunting. Inspiring. Genuine.    BEAST RIDER is a harrowing, thrilling, and emotional ride fraught with danger and hope.   It’s one boy’s journey across the border to reconnect with his long lost brother. This very realistic tale is about love, courage, family and growing up fast. It’s also frightening because it can – and does! -- happen.   Young boys – girls, adults, elders – do ride “The Beast,” the fast moving train from Mexico tow...

ABRAMS PRESS Chef Aarón Sánchez’s memoir touched my soul. As a fellow Mexican American, I grew up a lot like Aarón and shared the same kind of traditional Mexican cuisines every night at the dinner table. I have a new respect and understanding for the recipes that were passed along within my family, and I now have a deeper appreciation because I recognize that this is connection to my past that will live on forever.   –Oscar de la Hoya, Boxing Legend Happy 2020!   The Latina Book Club has chosen a savory memoir/ cookbook for its first Book of the Month of this new decade.   WHERE I COME FROM: LIFE LESSONS FROM A LATINO CHEF by Aarón Sánchez is inspiring, passionate and delicious.   Right from the start, readers learn that Aarón equates his love of food with his love for his family and heri tage.   He thanks his mother, who pushed him out of the nest at 16 to go work with a well-known New Orleans chef, for his love of cookin...

T he Latina Book Club wishes everyone a very Happy New Year ! We're starting ours with the Three Kings Day Parade on Monday, January 6, 2020, at El Museo del Barrio, followed by lunch at La Fonda.  (How sweet it is.) We wish all our Readers and Followers all the best for 2020 and Happy Reading !! #ReadLatinoLit #ReadLatino #ReadLatinx

   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...