And the winners are . . .
Here are the winners of the Stocking Stuffer Contest
Josie Segovia -Winner of both Books
Lillian Sierra - Winner of “Playing with Boys“
Marcia Moreno-Winner of “Playing with Boys“
Maggie Cuevas-WInner of “Playing with Boys“
Here is a quick review of the book by Publisher's Weekly:
Three very different Latina women vow to bring Los Angeles to its collective
knees in this funny, guilty pleasure of a novel, which bears some
resemblance to its author's previous hit, The Dirty Girls Social Club.
Dallas-born talent agent Alexis Lopez is trying to break her fellow
Meximericans, a band called Los Chimpances del Norte, into the big-time
spotlight, but she's also looking for new blood. Enter Marcella Gauthier
Bosch, a half-French bad-girl actress, once a star of Spanish-language soap
operas and now aching for a mainstream movie career that doesn't involve
being cast as a maid or a hooker. All she needs is a serious, Latina-focused
script-and that's where Olivia Reyes comes in. The shy, dowdy stay-at-home
mom is still traumatized by the memory of seeing her father gunned down by
Salvadoran soldiers. But she also has a serious, autobiographical
screenplay, and Alexis convinces her to let Alexis show it around-with the
idea that Marcella will be perfect as Soledad, Olivia's mother.
Complications abound, of course-there's Olivia's cheating husband,
Marcella's disdain for men in general and a Cuban rap star who seems
determined to break Alexis's heart-but so do the laughs. There's Alexis's
middle-aged white ex-boyfriend who thinks he's a teenage gangsta, Marcella's
latent-goth suitor and the good ol' hard-drinking, beer-gutted, coke-addled
Mexican boys of Los Chimpances del Norte. While the action is slow and the
novel repetitive in places-Alexis turns whining about her small breasts into
an art form-this is a funny, heartfelt piece of escapism, Latina-style.
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