Anjanette Delgado is a Puerto Rican writer and journalist based in Miami. She is the author of
The Heartbreak Pill: A Novel and
The Clairvoyant of Calle Ocho. She has written for the
New York Times “Modern Love” column,
Vogue, NPR, HBO, the
Kenyon Review,
Pleiades, the
Hong Kong Review, and others.
Delgado is the editor of the anthology
Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness.
At Electric Lit she tagged
seven books about uprootedness, including:
Women Talking by Miriam Toews
In the novel, a group of women violently betrayed by the men who were supposed to love them must choose a new way to be women in a world of men. Inspired in the real life case of the “ghost rapes” that occurred within a remote Mennonite community in Bolivia in the mid-2000s, it is uprootedness at its most gripping, written as if transcripted from a trial. I remember reading it with baited breath; Toews’ dialogue is better and more suspenseful than the most popular of crime thrillers. The gift of it? It left me feeling more rooted for reading it; more strongly belonging, claimed by the global country of women.
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--Marshal Zeringue
Anjanette Delgado is a Puerto Rican writer and journalist based in Miami. She is the author of The Heartbreak Pill: A Novel and The Clairvoyant of Calle Ocho. She has written for the New York Times “Modern Love” column, Vogue, NPR, HBO, the Kenyon Review, Pleiades, the Hong Kong Review, and others.
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