Join us for an author event this Saturday at 6 PM in Carolina Bookstore! Carol Leutner will be discussing her new book, Paradigm Shift. We will have cookies, coffee, and tea.
Earlier in the afternoon our book club will meet to discuss The Seven Year Slip, and between the two events stop by our friends and neighbors, The Museomatico Gallery, for a new exhibit opening! And don’t forget Trick or Treating on Hermano Miguel next week.
We finally got our shipment from the US of Ecuadorian fiction and non-fiction, and normal books as well! So excited to have This World Does Not Belong to Us by Natalia Garcia Freire, the only contemporary Cuencana author to be translated into English. It’s a spooky read concerned with family, decay, and bugs. Returning are Monica Ojeda’s Jawbone and Maria Fernanda Ampuero’s Cockfight and first-time arrivals Nefando and Human Sacrifices. Both are horror writers from Guayaquil, whose novels and stories tackle class and gender themes. Chilean author Luis Sepulveda’s novela The Old Man Who Read Love Stories is a love letter to the Ecuadorian Amazon and the Shuar. Poso/Wells is a darkly comedic novel by Quiteña Gabriela Aleman. The Queen of Water is Virginia Faranango’s autobiographical novel her Imbabura childhood of kidnapping and unpaid labor. Zoraida Cordova’s The Inheritance of Orquidea Divinais also back. In Nonfiction: Quito 1599, The Last Days of the Inca, The Ecuador Reader, and a book about the Nazca lines. Judy Blankenship’s memoir Canar: A Year in the Highlands of Ecuador is in stock, as well as Savages, Joe Kane’s book about the Waorani struggle against the oil companies, In Southern Light, Evolution’s Workshop, Galapagos: World’s end.
Please see our Facebook for the many, many more new arrivals! 10 AM-6 PM Monday-Saturday
6-76 Hermano Miguel y Presidente Cordova
Cost: Free
Public contact: readcarolinabooks@gmail.com
098 123 5136
Address: Hermano Miguel,
Cuenca, Ecuador