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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 und...

POINT OF BALANCE by author Juan Gómez-Jurado was our October Book of the Month.  It is a nail-biting, breath-catching thriller about a Doctor who must choose between saving his child or killing his next patient -- the President of the United States.  We were not able to interview Juan over the phone for our teleconference, but he did send us the answers to our questions; see below.   Happy Reading.    Juan Gomez-Jurado Q:  Please give us a brief synopsis of POINT OF BALANCE.    JGJ:  David Evans, a top neurosurgeon at a D.C. Hospital needs to choose between the life of the President of the United State and the life of his most beloved person, his daughter Julia, who is the only family he has after the death of his wife. Julia has been kidnapped by Mr. White, a mysterious and smart sociopath. In the challenge of saving Julia´s life, Evans can only count with the help of his sister in law, Kate, an FBI special agen...