The Association of American Publishers announced that it has joined forces with Las Comadres Para Las Americas, an informal internet-based group that meets monthly in over 50 US cities and growing, to build connections and community with other Latinas, to launch Reading with Las Comadres. The program is the cornerstone of the two organization’s support of September’s Hispanic Heritage Month. In the initial phase of the program members of Las Comadres will read one book per month, with the selected authors featured in teleconferences so that Comadres can learn more about the inspiration behind their works.

Great idea, and it’s interesting that the first book selected—Mayra Montero’s Dancing with Almendra—was a book this year.