We will be meeting on Tuesday, May 28th, at 7 pm. We’ll be reading Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle.

It is published by Charco Press, which focuses on finding outstanding contemporary Latin American literature and bringing it to new readers in the English-speaking world.

About the book:

After Rita is found dead in a church she used to attend, the official investigation into the incident is quickly closed. Her sickly mother is the only person still determined to find the culprit. Chronicling a difficult journey across the suburbs of the city, an old debt and a revealing conversation, Elena Knows unravels the secrets of its characters and the hidden facets of authoritarianism and hypocrisy in our society.