TOMORROW!! Our Inaugural Book Club is on Sunday, March 5 @1 pm ET / 10 am PT. Details and Zoom link below.

Hi Everyone,

Please join us for the kick-off to our quarterly Las Dos Brujas Book Club, moderated by Pilar García-Brown!!

Here’s the Zoom link for tomorrow:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85173205146?pwd=TVFuakdBS3Jza2VJWDJDOU1VZ0ptZz09

Meeting ID: 851 7320 5146

Passcode: 855059

DETAILS FROM MY ORIGINAL POST:

Our first book 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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See you soon!

Abrazos,

Cristina