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AAUW hopes you enjoy the 2001-2002 ¡Adelante! Book Club selections, and encourages members and nonmembers to open a dialogue of women and diversity in their communities.

September (Hispanic Heritage Month, Sept. 15-Oct. 15)

When I Was Puerto Rican
by Esmeralda Santiago (1994)

This beguiling story, from childhood in a vibrant Puerto Rican barrio to triumph at Harvard, offers insight into the unique identity conflict that many Puerto Rican Americans experience. 

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October (Disability Awareness Month)

Staring Back:The Disability Experience From the Inside Out
edited by Kenny Fries (1997) 

Through nonfiction, poetry, fiction, and drama, writers confront what it means to be disabled in our society.

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November(Native American Heritage Month) 

The Antelope Wife
by Louise Erdrich (1999) 

This foremost chronicler of the Native American experience weaves a powerful story capturing the sense of despair, destiny, and magic through three generations of a family. 

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December 

Saffron Sky: A Life Between Iran and America
by Gelareh Asayesh (2000) 

Reporter Gelareh Asayesh writes about her attempt to negotiate between her traditional Iranian culture and contemporary America. 

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January

For Crying Out Loud: Women's Poverty in the United States
edited by Diane Dujon and Ann Withorn (1996)

These essays explore the links between all women and connect families who draw public funds with those who don't. 

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Possessing the Secret of Joy
by Alice Walker (1997)

The protagonist submits to ritual female circumcision and spends the rest of her life trying to understand its meaning and live with its consequences. 

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March (Women's History Month) 

Pretty in Punk: Girls' Gender Resistance in a Boys' Subculture
by Lauraine Leblanc (1999)

This cutting-edge feminist and cultural studies research offers inspirational evidence of rebellion against stereotypical gender arrangements of girls empowering themselves in unique ways. 

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April 

Sights Unseen
by Kaye Gibbons (1996) 

The quietly heroic narrator — daughter of a manic-depressive mother and a loyal and   unceasingly patient father — relates one wild and poignant incident after another. 

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May (Asian Pacific American Heritage Month) 

Mona in the Promised Land
by Gish Jen (1997) 

This novel recounts life as the daughter of Chinese immigrants who are determined to discard the more obvious habits and tastes that might mark them as being too foreign. 

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June   (Gay/Lesbian Pride Month) 

The Other Side of Silence
by Joan Drury (1993) 

Written by the owner of Spinster Inc., which is dedicated to publishing feminist books, this lesbian mystery novel was a Minnesota Book Award finalist. 

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July 

Kaaterskill Falls
by Allegra Goodman (1999)

This novel intertwines the stories of three Orthodox Jewish families, each of whom is tugged between religious tradition and the secular world. 

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August 

The Last Time I Wore a Dress
by Daphne Scholinski with Jane Meredith Adams (1998) 

 This memoir recounts Daphne Scholinski's three years spent in mental institutions for, among other things, gender identity disorder. 

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