Gina Balibrera

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These audiobooks are positively inhuman

4 weeks ago | audible.com | Susie Dumond |Elif Shafak |Gina Balibrera |Kira Jane Buxton

Few literary devices intrigue and engage quite like a unique narrative perspective. Even if an arc feels familiar, the introduction of a new lens can shift the story's impact entirely. If you're looking for stories that can help you look at the world in a new way, tune into one of these audiobooks with nonhuman narrators and protagonists. We've got stories written from the perspectives of animals, plants, robots, inanimate objects, and even former humans.
The Volcano Daughters

Nov 1, 2024 | libraryjournal.com | Gina Balibrera

. Aug. 2024. 12:27 hrs. ISBN 9780593868539. $95. F COPY ISBN Balibrera debuts with a heart-wrenching portrait of Graciela and Consuelo, sisters caught up in the whirlwind of violence and political machinations in 1930s El Salvador. Born into an Indigenous community at the foot of a volcano, the two are separated in childhood but reunited in the capital, where Graciela serves as an oracle to an increasingly unhinged dictatorial general.
The Volcano Daughters

Sep 2, 2024 | bookbrowse.com | Gina Balibrera

Write your own review! Jill A Novel of Sisterhood THE VOLCANO DAUGHTERS by Gina Maria Balibrera Thank you to NetGalley and Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor for the ARC ebook to read. A debut set in early 20th century El Salvador. Graciela and her four friends live a simple life along with their mothers on a volcano in a community of indigenous women indentured to a coffee plantation.
The Volcano Daughters: A Novel

Sep 2, 2024 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Gina Balibrera

In her thought-provoking debut,The Volcano Daughters, author Gina María Balibrera deftly melds Latin American myth with El Salvadoran history, fashioning an imaginative tale told with attitude, a fresh view of real-life events, and a pacing that enlivens every page. It’s also magical realism at its best. The story is narrated by the ghosts of four young Indigenous women — Lourdes, Maria, Cora, and Lucia — murdered during an uprising brutally suppressed by the government.
More Than a Muse: On Salvadoran Artist and Wife of Antoine, Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry

Aug 23, 2024 | lithub.com | Gina Balibrera

My second morning in Robion, a village in southern France famous for its summertime melon festivals, I attacked the cantaloupe I had bought at the market with a knife, picked at it for breakfast, and set off. Oppède-le-Vieux was about eight kilometers from where I was staying on a research grant, and I was going there because I wanted to see the world of a character I was trying to invent.
10 Books from El Salvador and its Diaspora - Electric Literature

Aug 20, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Jo Lou |Gina Balibrera |Mucha Muchacha |Leticia Hernández Linares

Reading Lists These writers create work that transcends token representation and instead offers visions of surprise, transformation, mischief, and the future For a long time, much of what was published about El Salvador was a grim monolith, authored by outsiders: gringo historians, mid-century anthropologists, Céline models. If you read Joan Didion’s terse little book on the place, Salvador, you might have the idea that “terror is the given of the place.” I could write for a long time about...
THE VOLCANO DAUGHTERS

Aug 20, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Gina Balibrera |Kristin Hannah

The resilience of sisterly bonds forms the backbone of this swirling, heart-wrenching debut. Graciela and her four closest friends grow up on a coffee plantation nestled on a volcano, surrounded by the “joyful ferocity” of their mothers’ love. Their lives on the estate are simple but vibrant. They think little of men, including their fathers, until a man from the capital comes looking for Graciela.
Two Sisters Take On the 20th Century, With Ghosts in Tow

Aug 18, 2024 | nytimes.com | Gina Balibrera

THE VOLCANO DAUGHTERS, by Gina María BalibreraGina María Balibrera's debut novel, "The Volcano Daughters," spits fire from its very first page just as the fevered mountain of Izalco has flung brimstone for much of El Salvador's volatile history. This is an epic story, a remarkable achievement for a writer making her first foray into the literary landscape. Balibrera demonstrates a fearlessness that is rare.
When did you fall in love with hip hop?

Jun 17, 2024 | detroit.umich.edu | Gina Balibrera

Source: LSA Magazine facebook twitter pinterest google-plus linkedin Professor Stephen Ward is leading an LSA celebration of the 50th anniversary of hip hop that’s as vibrant and multitudinous as the art form itself: in the classroom, online, in Detroit, on a mixtape, and in an art gallery.
More than one story: LSA student creates exhibit to celebrate Chinese Americans in Detroit

May 29, 2024 | detroit.umich.edu | Gina Balibrera

Source: LSA Magazine facebook twitter pinterest google-plus linkedin The textbook story of Detroit’s Chinatowns might go something like this: Many Chinese people were left in poverty after two wars that Britain waged on China, in which Britain forcibly exported opium into China in exchange for tea.