Author Lyn Di Iorio presents OUTSIDE THE BONES at Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn, NY
In honor of Puerto Rican Heritage month, Lyn Di Iorio will present OUTSIDE THE BONES and share the unique life experiences of Latin women as reflected in her debut novel
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Nov 09, 2011 from 07:30 PM to 09:00 PM |
| Where | Greenlight Bookstore, 686 Fulton St. (at South Portland,) Brooklyn, NY 11217 |
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Join author Lyn Di Iorio as she reads from and autographs copies of her debut novel, Outside the Bones, at Greenlight Bookstore on 686 Fulton St. (at South Portland,) Brooklyn, Ny 11217.
About the Author:
Lyn Di Iorio grew up in Puerto Rico and came to the mainland to attend Harvard University. She received her master's degree from Stanford University's Creative Writing Program and her doctorate in English literature from the
University of California, Berkeley. She teaches literature and creative writing at the City College of New York and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author of scholarly books on Latino literature; this is her first novel, an excerpt of which won an honerable mention in 2009 New Millennium Writings Awards Competition.
About Outside the Bones:
Fina is a big girl with a big mouth. She’s the neighborhood bruja, or “spirit worker” as she likes to call herself, casting spells for her neighbors in Manhattan’s Upper West Side. She can’t believe it, though, when she puts an accidental fufú—or spell—on Chico, the irresistible trumpet-player who lives upstairs. “With so many scraps of his clothing … sprinkled with blood, gunpowder, sugar, spit, and God knows what else, poor Chico’s body didn’t know if it was being cursed or blessed.”
Chico recovers just as two women from his past turn up: his former beauty-queen lover and an attractive young woman claiming to be his long-dead daughter. Fina is not pleased. So she visits her mentor, Tata Victor Tumba Fuego, Master of Fire. He specializes in Palo Monte, the
Afro-Caribbean magical art of controlling and manipulating spirits housed in cauldrons. The Ancient One, the oldest spirit working for Victor, wants a blood sacrifice from Fina, something she has managed to avoid. “We ain’t on the island no more, we don’t sacrifice in the mountains of Africa or Cuba; we do it in our apartments.” But she needs help, so she’ll do what it takes. All too soon she finds herself involved with a spirit whose quest for revenge can’t be stopped.
Weaving Afro-Caribbean witchcraft rituals with the sixteen-year-old mystery of a woman’s disappearance, Outside the Bones is an erotically charged ghost story set in both present-day New York and Puerto Rico. Following in the tradition of Anne Rice, Lyn Di Iorio’s brilliant debut novel takes a mesmerizing look at issues of race, class, power and greed.
