READING WITH LAS COMADRES
A partnership with Las Comadres,
American Association of Publishers
and Borders, Inc. Las Comadres book clubs are meeting
in specific
Border's locations to discuss the August 2008 pick.
(Click
here for more information on the bookclub!)
Mexican
Enough
by
Stephanie Elizondo Griest
Monday, August
25, 2008 - Registration form below
8:00pm Eastern and Puerto Rico, 7:00pm Central, 6:00pm
Mountain, 5:00pm Pacific
The interview should last approximately 1 hour
Join Anjanette Delgado,
and comadres around the
nation on August 25, as she interviews
Stephanie Elizondo Griest
author of
Mexican Enough
published by Washington Square Press
All will be welcomed by spokesperson
comadre Esmeralda Santiago.
More at http://www.esmeraldasantiago.com
Have
you ever wanted to know how an author writes
a book? Where she gets her ideas? Who or what is her inspiration?
What she hoping to accomplish? Now you can have these and
other questions answered in the Reading with Las Comadres
LIVE Teleconference Series!
Each month comadre guest interviewers (announced monthly),
will interview a comadre author, whose latest book has just
been released, in a teleconference. To register
just fill out the form below. You will receive a confirmation
with the date, time, and call in numbers for the teleconference.
On the day of the event, just phone in and listen to the interview!
You may send questions to the author via Nora Comstock.
Mexican
Enough 
Growing up in a half-white, half-brown town and family in
South Texas, Stephanie Elizondo Griest struggled with her
cultural identity. Upon turning thirty, she ventured to her
mother's native Mexico to do some root-searching and stumbled
upon a social movement that shook the nation to its core.
Mexican Enough chronicles her adventures rumbling with luchadores
(professional wrestlers), marching with rebel teachers in
Oaxaca, investigating the murder of a prominent gay activist,
and sneaking into a prison to meet with indigenous resistance
fighters. She also visits families of the undocumented workers
she befriended back home. Travel mates include a Polish thief,
a Border Patrol agent, and a sultry dominatrix. Part memoir,
part journalistic reportage, Mexican Enough illuminates how
we cast off our identity in our youth, only to strive to find
it again as adults -- and the lessons to be learned along
the way.
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Stephanie Elizondo Griest has mingled with
the Russian Mafiya, polished Chinese propaganda, and belly
danced with Cuban rumba queens. These adventures inspired
her award-winning memoir Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow,
Beijing, and Havana and guidebook 100 Places Every Woman Should
Go. A former Hodder Fellow at Princeton, she won the 2007
Richard J. Margolis Award for social justice reporting. Visit
her website at http://www.mexicanenough.com.
Interviewed by Anjanette
Delgado.
Anjanette Delgado is a highly experienced and accomplished,
Emmy Award-winning TV producer with 20 years of experience
producing, designing and writing shows. She has executive-produced,
created original formats and/or launched significant projects
for CNN, NBC, Telemundo, HBO Latin America, MGM Latin America
and the United Nations. Anjanette, a Puerto Rico native, has
applied her expertise to creating community-driven and empowering
broadcast, print and event-based efforts for Latinos in the
US. Prior to joining Plural, Anjanette created, launched and
implemented the strategic department of Community Connections
at Telemundo, winning the first ever Sentinel for Health Awards
ever given to a Spanish-language network or station for her
campaigns on Breast Cancer and Diabetes.
Anjanette is currently director of Strategic Content Development
at Plural Entertaiment, Inc. The Heartbreak Pill/La
Píldora del mal amor, her first novel was published
by Atria, Simon and Schuster in April 2008. For more information
see http//www.anjanettedelgado.com.
