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FEBRUARY 2021 – BOOKS OF THE MONTH

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February is the month of love, of friendship.  We celebrate with a fun mouth-watering romance and a dynamic search for voices redefining Latino Identity.  Happy Reading, and as always, Read Latino Lit! BOOK OF THE MONTH A TASTE OF SAGE by Yaffa S. Santos Harper Paperbacks Lumi Santana is a chef with the gift of synesthesia—she can perceive a person’s emotions just by tasting their cooking. Despite being raised by a single mother who taught her that dreams and true love were silly fairy tales, she decides to take a chance and puts her heart and savings into opening a fusion restaurant in Inwood, Manhattan. The restaurant offers a mix of the Dominican cuisine she grew up with and other world cuisines that have been a source of culinary inspiration to her. When Lumi’s eclectic venture fails, she is forced to take a position as a sous chef at a staid, traditional French restaurant in midtown owned by Julien Dax, a celebrated chef known for his acid tongue as well as his brilliant smile. Lu
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LAS COMADRES & FRIENDS BOOK CLUB BY TIME ZONES (Updated 1-20-21)

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  Updated 1-20-2021   LAS COMADRES & FRIENDS NATIONAL LATINO BOOK CLUB    Comadres & Friends Readers are welcomed to attend any Book Club discussion group.   Please email the local Book Club directly for more information.   Visit www.latinolit.com for our monthly book club selections.   For our   2020 Books of the Year   list, click   here .       MONTHLY TELECONFERENCE Las Monday of the Month, except for holidays Live Teleconference, Free, 7pm Central/ 8pm EST/ 6pm MT/ 5pm PT Register for teleconference at  http://lascomadres.com/latinolit/join-teleconference/ Simultaneous TwitterChat at @ReadLatinoLit.    Use hashtags #ReadLatinoLit, #LasComadres, #LCBC     DISCUSSION GROUPS BY TIME ZONES   EASTERN TIME New York City Book Club The Wednesday before the monthly Teleconference. Usually 3rd Wednesday of the month at 7pm EST via zoom.   For more information, email nyc.lcbookclub@gmail.com . Washington DC Book Club Every 4th Saturday of the mon
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LAS COMADRES PARA LAS AMERICAS LAUNCH SPEAKER SERIES WITH SYLVIA ACEVEDO, JAN 27

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    ***   LAS COMADRES SPEAK  ***   Las Comadres Para Las Americas is launching a Speaker Series on Wednesday, January 27, at 7pm EST (4pm PT; 5pm MT; 6pm CTS) via zoom.   The inaugural speaker is Comadre Sylvia Acevedo .  Corporate Board Director, C-Suite Executive, Community Leader, Author, Rocket Scientist, and Comadre.   TOPIC:    NEW YEAR, NEW OUTLOOK FOR LATINAS IN AMERICA        Sylvia Acevedo is a devout believer in the power of transformation to change and improve lives, communities, organizations – and the world. She is a recognized leader whose innovation and growth strategies have been hallmarks of her career.  Author of PATH TO THE STARS: My Journey from Girl Scout to Rocket Scientist, which details Sylvia’s personal journey from the dirt streets of Las Cruses, New Mexico to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the top executive tiers of Apple, Dell, IBM, Qualcomm and other U.S. technology leaders.  Most recently, Sylvia served as CEO of Girl Scout
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JANUARY 2021 – BOOKS OF THE MONTH

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  Happy New Year!    Las Comadres & Friends National Latino Book Club begins 2021 with an unflinching memoir and a groundbreaking ghost story.   Join us on Monday, January 25, for a LIVE teleconference with our two authors.  Until then,  Happy Reading!   BOOK OF THE MONTH Once I Was You A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America By Maria Hinojosa Atria Books   In Once I Was You, The Emmy Award–winning journalist and anchor of NPR’s Latino USA shares her intimate experience growing up Mexican American on the South Side of Chicago. She offers a personal and illuminating account of how the rhetoric around immigration has not only long informed American attitudes toward outsiders, but also sanctioned willful negligence and profiteering at the expense of our country’s most vulnerable populations—charging us with the broken system we have today. An urgent call to fellow Americans to open their eyes to the immigration crisis and understand that it affects us all, this ho
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2020 LATINO BOOKS OF THE YEAR

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   LAS COMADRES AND FRIENDS NATIONAL LATINO BOOK CLUB 2020 BOOKS OF THE YEAR   Las Comadres and Friends National Latino Book Club is pleased to announce the inauguration of our annual Books of the Year List.  It's an exciting list populated with debut and award winning authors, celebrities, and Poet Laureates. Books come from traditional publishing houses, small presses, university presses and some are independently published.  For years, Latino voices have struggled to be heard, to be counted.   Well, Las Comadres & Friends book club has listened, and we want to make sure all Latino authors are counted.   It is our goal to produce an annual Books of the Year list with as many books by Latino authors as possible.   Books on this list include those selected as Books of the Month, Conversations with Books (both in italics), and our Summer Reading List selections.   We are also happy to note that many of these books are available in Spanish, and digital and audio formats
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