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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...

 Las Comadres & Friends National Latino Book Club announces its books for November 2020. BOOK OF THE MONTH THE RESURRECTION OF FULGENCIO RAMIREZ by Rudy Ruiz Blackstone Publishing CONVERSATIONS WITH BOOK FLYING FREE by Cecilia Aragon Blackstone Publishing Visit the Comadres & Friends Book Club website for book summaries by clicking here . S ave the date! Monday, November 23 , for our Live interview with authors Rudy Ruiz and Cecilia Aragon,  and the simultaneous #TwitterChat at @ReadLatinoLit and follow hashtag #ReadLatinoLit. Register for the November 23 teleconference   by clicking   here .   Early registrants may win a book from publisher; no guarantees. Buy your books at Las  Comadres Book Club  Book Shop here:    https://bookshop.org/shop/lascomadresbookclub Happy Reading Read Latino Lit   

PRESS RELEASE LAS COMADRES & FRIENDS NATIONAL LATINO BOOK CLUB ** Connecting Readers All Over The World Through Latino Literature ** 6 th   ANNUAL SUMMER READING LIST JUNE 20, 2020 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                             CONTACT: Maria Ferrer Media Relations Coordinator mferrer.lcbookclub@gmail.com New York, NY— Las Comadres & Friends National Latino Book Club stands in solidarity with Black and Afro Latinx Communities.   Black Lives Matter .   We condemn the murders of too many of our black brothers and sisters at the hands of police brutality. Las Comadres and Friends National Latin...

Connecting Readers All Over The World Through Latino Literature PRESS RELEASE JUNE 21, 2019 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE       CONTACT: Maria Ferrer Media Relations Coordinator mferrer.lcbookclub@gmail.com New York, NY— Las Comadres & Friends National Latino Book Club is pleased to announce the release of its Fifth Annual Summer Reading List on the first day of Summer!     “We are celebrating our 5 th Anniversary with a great list for your reading pleasure,” states Las Comadres Founder Nora De Hoyos Comstock. “Each year we comb through published works by Latinas/os to find books that will entice, enthrall, challenge and stimulate you to read more.   You will find new and current authors to celebrate and share with your friends. Enjoy!” One of the Book Club’s goals is to connect readers all over the world through Latino literature so we have something for everyone.   This year’s List offers a “baker’s dozen” wor...