Thanks to a recommendation from one of our indispensable public librarians, I discovered Uruguayan author Carolina de Robertis’s beautiful novel Cantoras. I recommend the author’s reading in Spanish for its liquid musicality, but it is also available in all formats in English.
[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] Joaquín Badajoz (El País) writes, “Over the last half-century, authors of Hispanic descent have contributed some classics to American literature with well-known titles such as The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Álvarez, Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina García, The…
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