Latina pride, writing is in their blood - The Boston Globe

“When Ann Hagman Cardinal, Lisa Alvarado, and Jane Alberdeston Coralin met at Vermont College as adult students six years ago, they felt an instant connection, a sisterhood as Latinas and fellow writers.

Between classes, they met at restaurants and coffee shops in Montpelier to gab about their experiences of growing up biculturally, as Puerto Rican, or Mexican-American, speaking English or Spanish or both, and how those memories helped shaped their creative writing and Latin pride.

So when Cardinal came across a listing looking for proposals for young adult novels for Latinas, she dialed up her college chicas. They began writing a book they hoped would portray the everyday cultural and familial challenges of young Latinas in a way that many adult contemporary man-hungry chica lit novels do not.”

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