SAVE THE DATE! Our Las Dos Brujas Book Club kicks off on Sunday, March 5 at 1 pm ET!

Hi Everyone,

I’m thrilled to announce that we’re inaugurating what I expect will be a fun, illuminating quarterly book club!

Our first selection: ALL THIS COULD BE DIFFERENT by Sarah Thankam Matthews, a 2022 National Book Award finalist in fiction.

Here’s more info on the author and her novel (plus a short reading):

https://www.nationalbook.org/people/sarah-thankam-mathews/

A “briefly noted” review in The New Yorker:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/09/05/memoirs-france-the-hop-and-all-this-could-be-different

And a link to Bookshop:

https://bookshop.org/p/books/all-this-could-be-different-sarah-thankam-mathews/17747792?ean=9780593489123

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Our moderator (on Zoom) will be Pilar García-Brown, who’s hosted a years-long book club of contemporary fiction and non-fiction for her friends and colleagues from her Brooklyn home—and suggested this novel. (She’s also my daughter!)

Here’s her bio:

Pilar Garcia-Brown, Senior Editor

Pilar Garcia-Brown joined Dutton as a Senior Editor in September 2021. Previously, she worked at Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. She concentrates on fiction in multiple categories, as well as the occasional narrative nonfiction. She’s interested in voice and character-driven fiction that upends expectation or plays with genre, and is especially drawn to novels that tackle urgent, contemporary social and cultural themes in an irreverent or humorous way. On the nonfiction side, she is looking for hybrid memoir and essays. Recent and forthcoming titles include: the instant New York Times bestseller Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour; Yes, Daddy by Jonathan Parks-Ramage; The Very Nice Box by Laura Blackett and Eve Gleichman; All Day is a Long Time by David Sanchez; In Sensorium by Tanaïs; and NBCC award winner You Play the Girl by Carina Chocano, among others. She is a mentor through the Representation Matters Mentorship Program and is currently co-chair of the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Fête Committee.

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Who’s interested?? Please “like” or comment so we can gauge early interest.

I’ll send off reminders as we get closer but it’s not too soon to get ahold of All This Could Be Different and dig in!

Abrazos,

Cristina