NHCC Book Club
2019-11-21 17:30 - 19:00 (America/Denver) | NHCC-Newsletter-August-26–September-7
5:30 pm
The NHCC Book Club meets once a month to talk about that month’s selected book.
Book for November: Her Body and Other Stories (2017) by Carmen Maria Machado.
To join the NHCC Book Club, register here. NHCC Book Club members who purchase their books through Bookworks get a 10% discount on that title.

NHCC Book Club
2019-12-12 17:30 - 19:00 | NHCC-Newsletter-August-26–September-7
5:30 pm
The NHCC Book Club meets once a month to talk about that month’s selected book.
Book for December: The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962) by Carlos Fuente.
To join the NHCC Book Club, register here. NHCC Book Club members who purchase their books through Bookworks get a 10% discount on that title.

Book Reading and Signing, Sergio Troncoso, A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son
2020-04-11 | NHCC-Newsletter-August-11-–-24
POSTPONED.
Check back for new date and time.
Free and open to the public.
How does a Mexican-American, the son of immigrants, a child of the border, la frontera, leave home and move to the heart of gringo America? How does he adapt to the worlds of wealth, elite universities, the rush and power of New York City? How does he make peace with a stern old-fashioned father who has only known hard field labor his whole life? With echoes of Dreiser’s American Tragedy and Fitzgerald’s Gatsby, Troncoso tells his luminous stories through the lens of an exile adrift in the 21st century, his characters suffering from the loss of culture and language, the loss of roots and home as they adapt to the glittering promises of new worlds which ultimately seem so empty.

Sergio Troncoso is the author of The Last Tortilla and Other Stories, Crossing Borders: Personal Essays, and the novels The Nature of Truth and From This Wicked Patch of Dust. He’s taught at the Yale Writers’ Workshop for many years. Troncoso is Vice President of the Texas Institute of Letters and a member of the Hispanic Scholarship Fund’s Alumni Hall of Fame. He has also been a recipient of numerous awards, including the International Latino Book Award, the Premio Aztlan Literary Prize, and the Southwest Book Award. He was born in El Paso, Texas, and attended Harvard College and Yale University, where he earned graduate degrees in international relations and philosophy.
“Sergio Troncoso is one of our most brilliant minds in Latina/o Literature. These new stories demonstrate that he is also possessed of a great corazón. This is a world-class collection. Troncoso continues to raise the bar for the rest of us. Highly recommended.” –Luis Urrea, author of The House of Broken Angels and The Hummingbird’s Daughter
“These poignant short stories shed a startling light on the middle-class experience of Chicanos in New York…Sergio Troncoso dispels the myth of assimilation as a safe haven and reminds readers that distance from a working-class upbringing doesn’t absolve a person from the responsibility to one’s community.”–NBC News, 15 great new books for Hispanic Heritage Month
Bookworks will sell books for this afternoon reading. The NHCC book club will be discussing the book on Thursday, March 26, from 5:30- 7 pm in the NHCC Library

NHCC Book Club
2020-07-23
5:30 pm – Online via Zoom
The NHCC Book Club meets once a month to talk about that month’s selected book.
Book for July: The Ladies of Managua, Eleni N. Gage.
To join the NHCC Book Club, register here. NHCC Book Club members who purchase their books through Bookworks get a 10% discount on that title.

Instituto Cervantes Book Club - Registration
2020-08-12 - 2020-08-26
Instituto Cervantes is launching a Spanish Book Club, for the time being, online.
This is a club aimed at people interested in literature, both Spanish speakers and students of Spanish with a minimum level of B2 (Advanced Level). In this term we will read Tarta de almendras con amor by Angela Vallvey, Un mar violeta oscuro by Ayanta Barilli, Ni siquiera los muertos by Juan Gómez Bárcena and A flor de piel by Javier Moro.
They will read and discuss the texts and talk with the authors, who will accompany the group during one of the two sessions dedicated to each book.
The club is coordinated by Dr. Celia López-Chávez, professor emeritus of the University of New Mexico. It is a unique opportunity to follow the literary dynamism of literary production in Spanish and to discuss literature and contemporary issues.
Registration is required. Register between August 12 and August 26. Cost is $50.
Register online here.
More information.

NHCC Book Club
2020-08-27
5:30 pm
The NHCC Book Club meets once a month to talk about that month’s selected book.
Book for August: A Long Petal of the Sea, Isabel Allende.
To join the NHCC Book Club, register here. NHCC Book Club members who purchase their books through Bookworks get a 10% discount on that title.

Instituto Cervantes Book Club
2020-09-08, 2020-09-22
10-11:30 am
The Instituto Cervantes Book Club meets twice a month to talk about that month’s selected book.
Book for September: Tarta de almendras con amor, Angela Vallvey.
Pre-registration for the Instituto Cervantes Book Club is required.
More information.

NHCC Book Club
2020-09-24
5:30 pm
The NHCC Book Club meets once a month to talk about that month’s selected book.
Book for September: Ordinary Girls: A Memoir, Jacquira Diaz.
To join the NHCC Book Club, register here. NHCC Book Club members who purchase their books through Bookworks get a 10% discount on that title.

Instituto Cervantes Book Club
2020-10-06, 2020-10-20
10-11:30 am
The Instituto Cervantes Book Club meets twice a month to talk about that month’s selected book.
Book for October: Un mar violeta oscuro, Ayanta Barilli.
Pre-registration for the Instituto Cervantes Book Club is required.
More information.

NHCC Book Club
2020-10-22
5:30 pm
The NHCC Book Club meets once a month to talk about that month’s selected book.
Book for October: Into the Beautiful North, Luis Alberto Urrea.
To join the NHCC Book Club, register here. NHCC Book Club members who purchase their books through Bookworks get a 10% discount on that title.

Instituto Cervantes Book Club
2020-11-03, 2020-11-17
10-11:30 am
The Instituto Cervantes Book Club meets twice a month to talk about that month’s selected book.
Book for November: Ni siquiera los muertos, Juan Gómez Bárcena
Pre-registration for the Instituto Cervantes Book Club is required.
More information.

NHCC Book Club
2020-11-19
5:30 pm
The NHCC Book Club meets once a month to talk about that month’s selected book.
Book for November: Lost City Radio, Daniel Alarcon.
To join the NHCC Book Club, register here. NHCC Book Club members who purchase their books through Bookworks get a 10% discount on that title.

Instituto Cervantes Book Club
2020-12-01, 2020-12-15
10-11:30 am
The Instituto Cervantes Book Club meets twice a month to talk about that month’s selected book.
Book for December: A flor de piel by Javier Moro
Pre-registration for the Instituto Cervantes Book Club is required.
More information.

NHCC Book Club
2020-12-15
5:30 pm
The NHCC Book Club meets once a month to talk about that month’s selected book.
Book for December: Sabrina and Corina: Stories, Kali Fajardo-Anstine.
To join the NHCC Book Club, register here. NHCC Book Club members who purchase their books through Bookworks get a 10% discount on that title.

NHCC Book Club: Murmur of Bees—Sofia Segovia
2021-01-28
5:30 pm (MST)
Live via Zoom.
To join, contact cassandra.osterloh@state.nm.us
“Set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution and the devastating influenza of 1918, The Murmur of Bees captures both the fate of a country in flux and the destiny of one family that has put their love, faith, and future in the unbelievable.” – Goodreads.
Free and open to the public

NHCC Book Club: Atop the Windmill: I Could See Forever—Maria Dolores Gonzales
2021-02-25
5:30 pm (MST)
Live via Zoom
To join, contact cassandra.osterloh@state.nm.us
“In this memoir a series of vignettes features Dolores, the fourth-born daughter in a family of five girls, growing up in rural, northeastern New Mexico. Atop the Windmill appeals to both adult and young readers who have an interest in the rich Nuevomexicano linguistic and cultural heritage of New Mexico.”—Bilingual Strategies.

Free and open to the public

NHCC Book Club: Mexican Gothic—Silvia Moreno-Garcia
2021-03-25
5:30 pm (MST)
Live via Zoom
To join, contact cassandra.osterloh@state.nm.us
“Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic is a thoroughly enjoyable, thought-provoking novel. The main character, Noémi, receives a strange letter from her cousin, Catalina, who begs for help. She claims her new husband Virgil Doyle is poisoning her, that ‘fleshless things’ and ghosts trouble her, that ‘they will not let me go.’ Noémi — self-assured, chic and stubborn — leaves the glamor of 1950s Mexico City for the countryside, still depressed after a mining bust and fecund with secrets, to determine whether Catalina needs rescue.” – Jessica P. Wick, NPR.

Free and open to the public

NHCC Book Club: Everyone Knows You Go Home—Natalia Sylvester
2021-04-22
5:30 pm (MST)
Live via Zoom
To join, contact cassandra.osterloh@state.nm.us
Winner of an International Latino Book Award. “The first time Isabel meets her father-in-law, Omar, he’s already dead—an apparition appearing uninvited on her wedding day. Her husband, Martin, still unforgiving for having been abandoned by his father years ago, confesses that he never knew the old man had died. Omar asks Isabel for the impossible: persuade Omar’s family—especially his wife, Elda—to let him redeem himself.” – Goodreads.
Free community event

NHCC Book Club: Children of the Land: A Memoir—Marcelo Hernandez-Castillo
2021-05-27
5:30 pm (MST)
Live via Zoom
To join, contact cassandra.osterloh@state.nm.us
“Honest and unsparing, this book offers a detailed look at the dehumanizing immigration system that shattered the author’s family while offering a glimpse into his own deeply conflicted sense of what it means to live the so-called American dream. A heartfelt and haunting memoir just right for the current political and social climate.” -Kirkus Reviews.
Free community event

NHCC Book Club: Afterlife—Julia Alvarez
2021-06-24 | Live via Zoom or in-person
5:30 pm (MDT)
Live via Zoom
To join, contact cassandra.osterloh@state.nm.us
“Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of Afterlife, has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has just retired from the college where she taught English when her beloved husband, Sam, suddenly dies. And then more jolts: her bighearted but unstable sister disappears, and Antonia returns home one evening to find a pregnant, undocumented teenager on her doorstep. Antonia has always sought direction in the literature she loves—lines from her favorite authors play in her head like a soundtrack—but now she finds that the world demands more of her than words.” – Goodreads.
Free community event

NHCC Book Club: Queen of America
2021-07-22 | Live via Zoom or in-person
5:30 pm (MST)
Live via Zoom
To join, contact cassandra.osterloh@state.nm.us
“Beginning where Luis Alberto Urrea’s bestselling The Hummingbird’s Daughter left off, Queen of America finds young Teresita Urrea, beloved healer and “Saint of Cabora,” with her father in 1892 Arizona. But, besieged by pilgrims in desperate need of her healing powers, and pursued by assassins, she has no choice but to flee the borderlands and embark on an extraordinary journey into the heart of turn-of-the-century America.
Teresita’s passage will take her to New York, San Francisco, and St. Louis, where she will encounter European royalty, Cuban poets, beauty queens, anxious immigrants and grand tycoons — and, among them, a man who will force Teresita to finally ask herself the ultimate question: is a saint allowed to fall in love?” – Goodreads.
Free community event

NHCC Book Club: The Resurrection of Fulgencio Ramirez
2021-08-26 | Live via Zoom or in-person
5:30 pm (MST)
Live via Zoom
To join, contact cassandra.osterloh@state.nm.us
“In the 1950s, tensions remain high in the border town of La Frontera. Penny loafers and sneakers clash with boots and huaraches. Bowling shirts and leather jackets compete with guayaberas. Convertibles fend with motorcycles. Yet amidst the discord, young love blooms at first sight between Fulgencio Ramirez, the son of impoverished immigrants, and Carolina Mendelssohn, the local pharmacist’s daughter. But as they’ll soon find out, their bonds will be undone by a force more powerful than they could have known.

Thirty years after their first fateful encounter, Fulgencio Ramirez, RPh, is conducting his daily ritual of reading the local obituaries in his cramped pharmacy office. After nearly a quarter of a century of waiting, Fulgencio sees the news he’s been hoping for: his nemesis, the husband of Carolina Mendelssohn, has died.
A work of magical realism, The Resurrection of Fulgencio Ramirez weaves together the past and present as Fulgencio strives to succeed in America, break a mystical family curse, and win back Carolina’s love after their doomed youthful romance. Through enchanting language and meditations about the porous nature of borders–cultural, geographic, and otherworldly–The Resurrection of Fulgencio Ramirez offers a vision of how the past has divided us, and how the future could unite us. ” – Goodreads.
Free community event

NHCC Book Club: The Five Wounds
2021-09-23 | Live via Zoom or in-person
5:30 pm (MST)
Live via Zoom
To join, contact cassandra.osterloh@state.nm.us
“From an award-winning storyteller comes a stunning debut novel about a New Mexican family’s extraordinary year of love and sacrifice.
The Five Wounds is a miraculous debut novel from a writer whose stories have been hailed as “legitimate masterpieces” (New York Times). Kirstin Valdez Quade conjures characters that will linger long after the final page, bringing to life their struggles to parent children they may not be equipped to save.” – Goodreads
Free community event

NHCC Book Club: The Taste of Sugar
2021-10-28 | Live via Zoom or in-person
5:30 pm (MDT)
Live via Zoom
To join, contact Dr. Patricia Marie Perea by emailing her at Patricia.perea@state.nm.us
“It is 1898, and groups of starving Puerto Ricans, los hambrientos, roam the parched countryside and dusty towns begging for food. Under the yoke of Spanish oppression, the Caribbean island is forced to prepare to wage war with the United States. Up in the mountainous coffee region of Utuado, Vicente Vega and Valentina Sanchez labor to keep their small farm from the creditors. When the Spanish-American War and the great San Ciriaco Hurricane of 1899 bring devastating upheaval, the young couple is lured, along with thousands of other puertorriqueños, to the sugar plantations of Hawaii—another US territory—where they are confronted by the hollowness of America’s promises of prosperity. Writing in the tradition of great Latin American storytelling, Marisel Vera’s The Taste of Sugar is an unforgettable novel of love and endurance, and a timeless portrait of the reasons we leave home.” – Goodreads
Free community event

NHCC Book Club: The Wind That Lays Waste
2021-11-18 | Live via Zoom or in-person
5:30 pm (MST)
Live via Zoom
To join, contact Dr. Patricia Marie Perea by emailing her at Patricia.perea@state.nm.us
“The Wind That Lays Waste begins in the great pause before a storm. Reverend Pearson is evangelizing across the Argentinian countryside with Leni, his teenage daughter, when their car breaks down. This act of God or fate leads them to the workshop and home of an aging mechanic called Gringo Brauer and a young boy named Tapioca.

As a long day passes, curiosity and intrigue transform into an unexpected intimacy between four people: one man who believes deeply in God, morality, and his own righteousness, and another whose life experiences have only entrenched his moral relativism and mild apathy; a quietly earnest and idealistic mechanic’s assistant, and a restless, skeptical preacher’s daughter. As tensions between these characters ebb and flow, beliefs are questioned and allegiances are tested, until finally the growing storm breaks over the plains.

Selva Almada’s exquisitely crafted debut, with its limpid and confident prose, is profound and poetic, a tactile experience of the mountain, the sun, the squat trees, the broken cars, the sweat-stained shirts, and the destroyed lives. The Wind That Lays Waste is a philosophical, beautiful, and powerfully distinctive novel that marks the arrival in English of an author whose talent and poise are undeniable. ” -Goodreads
For more information, please, contact Dr. Patricia Marie Perea by emailing her at Patricia.perea@state.nm.us
Free community event

NHCC Book Club: Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America
2021-12-16 | Live via Zoom or in-person
5:30 pm (MST)
Live via Zoom
To join, contact Dr. Patricia Marie Perea by emailing her at Patricia.perea@state.nm.us
“In Once I Was You, Maria shares her intimate experience growing up Mexican American on the south side of Chicago and documenting the existential wasteland of immigration detention camps for news outlets that often challenged her work. In these pages, she offers a personal and eye-opening account of how the rhetoric around immigration has not only long informed American attitudes toward outsiders, but also enabled willful negligence and profiteering at the expense of our country’s most vulnerable populations—charging us with the broken system we have today.

This honest and heartrending memoir paints a vivid portrait of how we got here and what it means to be a survivor, a feminist, a citizen, and a journalist who owns her voice while striving for the truth. Once I Was You is an urgent call to fellow Americans to open their eyes to the immigration crisis and understand that it affects us all.” – Goodreads
Free community event
The NHCC Book Club is sponsored by AARP.
