Latino Book Club meets on May 30th at 3 pm at Francesco's Cafe on Kerr Ave, to discuss Daniel Alarcon's Lost City Radio. Please send your comments or leave them here at our blog site.
1. Should Latinos growing up in the United States be writing of Latin American issues?
June 15th 2009
Sorry for the late post. I got back last week from India and was glad to hear that Irene, Cathy, Lizzy and Jacquie met on May 30th to discuss Lost City Radio. Lizzy wrote back to me saying,
"The general consensus was that we were not crazy about the book. I did not dislike it but it was not my favorite. I think we all felt lost, which I consider the point of the book - to give us a feeling of the chaos and confusion during war. We all agreed that one thing we did not like is that the book did not elicit an emotional response toward any of the characters. Irene also had an interesting observation: religion and the Church were never mentioned in this book. In the other books we have read religion plays a significant role in the lives of the characters."
This is certainly one of the very different books we have read. The author is a trained anthropologist, and we are dealing with a Civil War in a country, a theme that we have not touched upon in any of our books and moreover it is not about the Latinos of the United States.
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