Penny Rudolph's Eye of the Mountain God May ELLA Pick
ELLA--English Language Latina Authors, the nation's only book club devoted entirely to works by and about U.S. Latinas--will be reading Penny Rudolph's soon-to-be-released thriller Eye of the Mountain God as their May pick.
The group's founder Alisa Valdez Rodriguez says, "I believe a true measure of a community's equality in the greater culture is often best measured not by the art we create about ourselves--after all, we know we're terrific!--but rather by work written about us by those who do not belong to our group.
While many Latina characters in mainstream fiction by non-Latina authors painted us as stereotypical in the past, I am pleased to see that the new wave of novels by non-Latinas but featuring Latina protagonists present us a whole, well-rounded, interesting and unique individual human beings who are American everywomen. This is a major step forward, and one we should all support!
Penny Rudolph says, I am very pleased (and honored) for Eye of the Mountain God to be selected by ELLA.
The publisher, Thomas Dunne Books, describes Eye of the Mountain God as:
An explosive combination...
A woman who finds five emerald arrowheads wrapped in her newspaper,
an autistic child who knows the unkowable,
a man determined to become the American Che Guevara
Advance praise for this thriller comes from 2-time Edgar Award-winner Warren Murphy, who calls it, "An exciting thriller with a Southwestern flavor...(that) combines elements of Rudolfo Anaya's and Tony Hillerman's novels."
Read an excerpt and learn more at pennyrudolph.com
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