SEPTEMBER EVENTS
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 18, 2011
Brooklyn Book Festival
Las Comadres/La Casa Azul Bookstore, Booth #125
12:00pm – 5:00pm
Las Comadres Para Las Americas and La Casa Azul Bookstore are joining forces to celebrate Hispanic/Latino authors at the Brooklyn Book Festival on September 18, 2011. The Brooklyn Book Festival is the largest free literary event in New York City presenting an array of literary stars and emerging authors who represent the exciting world of literature today. One of America’s premier book festivals, this hip, smart, diverse gathering attracts thousands of book lovers of all ages.
WHERE?
Brooklyn Borough Hall
209 Joralemon Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Brooklyn Book Festival - brooklynbookfestival.org
Las Comadres Para Las Americas - lascomadres.org
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 28, 2011
Meet Esmeralda Santiago
6:30pm – 8:30pm
Conquistadora by Esmeralda Santiago
Conquistadora is a sensual, riveting tale, set in a place where human passions and cruelties collide: thrilling history that has never before been brought so vividly and unforgettably to life.
As a young girl growing up in Spain, Ana Larragoity Cubillas is powerfully drawn to Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled there with Ponce de León. And in handsome twin brothers Ramón and Inocente—both in love with Ana—she finds a way to get there. She marries Ramón, and in 1844, just eighteen, she travels across the ocean to a remote sugar plantation the brothers have inherited on the island.
Ana faces unrelenting heat, disease and isolation, and the dangers of the untamed countryside even as she relishes the challenge of running Hacienda los Gemelos. But when the Civil War breaks out in the United States, Ana finds her livelihood, and perhaps even her life, threatened by the very people on whose backs her wealth has been built: the hacienda’s slaves, whose richly drawn stories unfold alongside her own. And when at last Ana falls for a man who may be her destiny—a once-forbidden love—she will sacrifice nearly everything to keep hold of the land that has become her true home.
WHERE?
El Museo del Barrio
1230 Fifth Ave
New York, NY 10029
El Museo del Barrio/ elmuseo.org
RSVP/information: lacasaazulbookstore@gmail.com
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 18, 2011
Brooklyn Book Festival
Las Comadres/La Casa Azul Bookstore, Booth #125
12:00pm – 5:00pm
Las Comadres Para Las Americas and La Casa Azul Bookstore are joining forces to celebrate Hispanic/Latino authors at the Brooklyn Book Festival on September 18, 2011. The Brooklyn Book Festival is the largest free literary event in New York City presenting an array of literary stars and emerging authors who represent the exciting world of literature today. One of America’s premier book festivals, this hip, smart, diverse gathering attracts thousands of book lovers of all ages.
WHERE?
Brooklyn Borough Hall
209 Joralemon Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Brooklyn Book Festival - brooklynbookfestival.org
Las Comadres Para Las Americas - lascomadres.org
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 28, 2011
Meet Esmeralda Santiago
6:30pm – 8:30pm
Conquistadora by Esmeralda Santiago
Conquistadora is a sensual, riveting tale, set in a place where human passions and cruelties collide: thrilling history that has never before been brought so vividly and unforgettably to life.
As a young girl growing up in Spain, Ana Larragoity Cubillas is powerfully drawn to Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled there with Ponce de León. And in handsome twin brothers Ramón and Inocente—both in love with Ana—she finds a way to get there. She marries Ramón, and in 1844, just eighteen, she travels across the ocean to a remote sugar plantation the brothers have inherited on the island.
Ana faces unrelenting heat, disease and isolation, and the dangers of the untamed countryside even as she relishes the challenge of running Hacienda los Gemelos. But when the Civil War breaks out in the United States, Ana finds her livelihood, and perhaps even her life, threatened by the very people on whose backs her wealth has been built: the hacienda’s slaves, whose richly drawn stories unfold alongside her own. And when at last Ana falls for a man who may be her destiny—a once-forbidden love—she will sacrifice nearly everything to keep hold of the land that has become her true home.
WHERE?
El Museo del Barrio
1230 Fifth Ave
New York, NY 10029
El Museo del Barrio/ elmuseo.org
RSVP/information: lacasaazulbookstore@gmail.com
