Marcela D Aviles Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Marcela Davison Avilés is a writer and journalist. Writer/producer/journalist (NPR, Journal of Alta Ca., Mercury News, SF Chron, CNN, BELatina) LA Press Club Honors, Hollywood culture whisperer

There There
Tommy Orange
“Orange writes in the book’s interlude: “All these stories that we haven’t been telling all this time, that we haven’t been listening to, are just part of what we need to heal.” https://www.altaonline.com/california-book-club/a7571/tommy-orange-there-there-storytelling/
Paperback, 2019
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
My Name Is Emilia del Valle
Isabel Allende
A deeply researched historical adventure, excavating both romantic and journalistic exploits with verve and passion. But it is the story’s prescient alignment with our current cultural and civic upheaval that lands like a mortar from Allende’s epic depiction of the Battle of Concón
Hardcover, 2025
$30.00Member price:$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Inheritors
Asako Serizawa
My latest book review for @NPR: @a_serizawa ‘s 'Inheritors' is a stunning and remarkable debut. Our current cultural moment is presciently mapped in these stories. We can all learn from the choices made by these inheritors. https://t.co/fcdu8V8iFB
Paperback, 2021
$16.00Member price:$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Wind Knows My Name
Isabel Allende
When I learned Isabel Allende's new book… is set in my hometown… I put it on the top of my reading list. Allende's artistry shapes a lyrical romanticism around social political history and global turmoil. I'm eager to find what she discovers in our borderlands.
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