Lara Rios is part of Your Virtual Book Bag with me and her new book is out this month. It really appeals to me. It’s chick lit, which I like, and it’s different. The protagonist is Mexican-American. I took a ton of Spanish in college and even studied in Mexico one summer. BTW, my Spanish is dreadful. Anyway, love Latin music and the culture.
Here’s the blurb from Lara’s site:
“One’s ethnicity should be a given, but for Marcela Alvarez who was born into a Mexican-American family and has been accused one too many times of not being Mexican enough, the challenge becomes, how do you become more Latina?
Well, there are many ways to approach this goal and Marcela, being a creative Hollywood animator, figures she will have no problem devising ten easy steps to make her into a model Latina.
However, when she reaches for the ten easiest clichés rather than ten real steps, all she gets is a domino effect of one disaster after another.”
This sounds like a must read for me. I’m going to look for it on my next trip to Borders. In the meantime–anyone read it yet?
Oh, and for an excerpt go here.
I haven’t read it yet, but I saw that Lara Rios will be doing a chat on NovelTalk about the book on January 11. I am definitely interested in learning more about the book.
by Jennifer Yates January 10th, 2006 at 3:05 pmHey! I went to the chat with Lara tonight and the book sounds really good. Her next one is Becoming Americana. Just thought that I would let you know!
by Jennifer Yates January 11th, 2006 at 11:09 pmThanks, Jennifer. My Rita books arrived so I have a stack to work through before I get to Borders, but this is still on my list. :)
by Lori January 14th, 2006 at 8:23 pm