The book’s buzz underscores the tension writers, especially Latino writers, face in dealing with publishers on the hunt for commercial successes yet unwilling to take a chance on new writers with unfamiliar voices. A decade after the club was formed, the women faithfully gather to laugh, cry and reveal secrets in English - with a dash of Spanglish used to dish and lament the state of their romantic lives. The women are either professionals who publish magazines or housewives who could easily bill themselves as a Latina Marta Stewart. Set in Boston, the novel follows the lives of six friends who attended college together and gather every six months to catch up on the details and foibles of life. “And it is only in my own country that I’m referred to by my ethnicity.” “I’m an American writer overseas,” Valdes-Rodriguez tells the crowd. Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez flashes a bashful smile as she steps before the crowd of about 100 people, most of them Hispanic women who have come to see the author of one of the most talked about books this year: The Dirty Girls Social Club.īut it only takes a few minutes for Valdes-Rodriguez to abandon her shyness and reveal why the 34-year-old writer is generating so much buzz and sparking a debate over cultural identity.
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