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SUMMARY:NHCC Book Club: Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzales
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, May 27\, 2026\n6:00 pm – 7:30 pm \nThe NHCC invites lovers of literature\, folks who love to read\, and those who enjoy talking about the history and the vast array of identities that contribute to Latinidad/Hispanidad to join us! We will meet on the fourth Wednesday of every month in the Center’s HLA Conference Room. \nFor the month of May\, the NHCC Book Club will feature Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzales. \nPLEASE MAKE YOUR RESERVATION HERE! \nThe New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-generation Ivy League student who uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious death Anita de Monte\, a rising star in the art world\, is found dead in New York City; her tragic death is the talk of the town. Until it isn’t. By 1998 Anita’s name has been all but forgotten—certainly by the time Raquel\, a third-year art history student is preparing her final thesis. On College Hill\, surrounded by privileged students whose futures are already paved out for them\, Raquel feels like an outsider. Students of color\, like her\, are the minority there\, and the pressure to work twice as hard for the same opportunities is no secret. \nBut when Raquel becomes romantically involved with a well-connected older art student\, she finds herself unexpectedly rising up the social ranks. As she attempts to straddle both worlds\, she stumbles upon Anita’s story\, raising questions about the dynamics of her own relationship\, which eerily mirrors that of the forgotten artist. \nMoving back and forth through time and told from the perspectives of both women\, Anita de Monte Laughs Last is a propulsive\, witty examination of power\, love\, and art\, daring to ask who gets to be remembered and who is left behind in the rarefied world of the elite. (Goodreads) \nThis book is available at the Albuquerque Public Library: 7 copies on Kindle\, 3 audiobooks via Libby\, 5 Large Type copies\, 4 regular type \nThis is a free community event. Please let us know who will be attending by registering below. \nNHCC Book Club | New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs \n 
URL:https://nhccnm.org/event/nhcc-book-club-anita-de-monte-laughs-last-by-xochitl-gonzales/
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SUMMARY:NHCC Book Club: Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice by Cristina Rivera Garza
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, June 24\, 2026\n6:00 – 7:30 pm \nThe NHCC invites lovers of literature\, folks who love to read\, and those who enjoy talking about the history and the vast array of identities that contribute to Latinidad/Hispanidad to join us! We will meet on the fourth Wednesday of every month in the Center’s HLA Conference Room.  \nFor the month of July\, we will be reading Cristina Rivera Garza’s Puliter Prize Winning Memoir Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice. \nPLEASE MAKE YOUR RESERVATION HERE! \nCan you enjoy yourself while you are in pain? The question\, which is not new\, arises over and over again during that eternity that is mourning. \nIn the early hours of July 16\, 1990\, Liliana Rivera Garza was murdered by her abusive ex-boyfriend. A life full of promise and hope\, cut tragically short\, Liliana’s story instead became subsumed into Mexico’s dark and relentless history of domestic violence. With Liliana’s case file abandoned by a corrupt criminal justice system\, her family\, including her older sister Cristina\, was forced to process their grief and guilt in private\, without any hope for justice. \nIn luminous\, poetic prose\, Rivera Garza tells a singular yet universally resonant story: that of a spirited\, wondrously hopeful young woman who tried to survive in a world of increasingly normalized gendered violence. It traces the story of her childhood\, her early romance with a handsome–but possessive and short-tempered–man\, through the exhilarating weeks leading up to that fateful July morning\, a summer when Liliana loved\, thought\, and traveled more widely and freely than she ever had before. \nUsing her remarkable talents as a scholar\, novelist\, and poet\, Cristina Rivera Garza returns to Mexico after decades of living in the United States to collect and curate evidence–handwritten letters\, police reports\, school notebooks\, architectural blueprints–in order to render and understand a life beyond the crime itself. Tracing the full arc of their childhood and adolescence in central Mexico\, through the painful and confusing years after Liliana’s death\, Rivera Garza confronts the trauma of losing her sister\, and examines from multiple angles how this tragedy continues to shape who she is–and what she fights for–today.  \n“In this gut-wrenching blend of memoir and reportage\, Rivera Garza (No One Will See Me Cry)\, a Hispanic studies professor at the University of Houston\, investigates her younger sister Liliana’s 1990 murder by an abusive ex-boyfriend\, who remains at large. Placing her sister’s death in the context of the femicide crisis in Mexico\, Rivera Garza interweaves startling facts and statistics (an average of 10 women are killed per day in Mexico) with lyrical meditations on her family life and Liliania’s efforts to break away from her obsessive high school boyfriend\, Ángel González Ramos.” (Goodreads)  \nThis book is available at the Albuquerque Public Library: 2 copies available\, plus Kindle ebook and Libby Audiobook  \nThis is a free community event. Please let us know who will be attending by registering below.  \nNHCC Book Club | New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs
URL:https://nhccnm.org/event/nhcc-book-club-lilianas-invincible-summer-a-sisters-search-for-justice-by-cristina-rivera-garza/
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