**November's selection in this book club focusing on fiction by BIPOC authors is *Cantoras*, by Caro De Robertis.**

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**Book Description:**
**From the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of *The Gods of Tango*, a revolutionary new novel about five wildly different women who, in the midst of the Uruguayan dictatorship, find one another as lovers, friends, and ultimately, family.**

In 1977 Uruguay, a military government crushed political dissent with ruthless force. In this environment, where the everyday rights of people are under attack, homosexuality is a dangerous transgression to be punished. And yet Romina, Flaca, Anita “La Venus,” Paz, and Malena – five cantoras, women who “sing” – somehow, miraculously, find one another. Together, they discover an isolated, nearly uninhabited cape, Cabo Polonio, which they claim as their secret sanctuary. Over the next thirty-five years, their lives move back and forth between Cabo Polonio and Montevideo, the city they call home, as they return, sometimes together, sometimes in pairs, with lovers in tow, or alone. And throughout, again and again, the women will be tested – by their families, lovers, society, and one another – as they fight to live authentic lives.

A genre-defining novel and De Robertis’s masterpiece, *Cantoras* is a breathtaking portrait of queer love, community, forgotten history, and the strength of the human spirit. At once timeless and groundbreaking, *Cantoras* is a tale about the fire in all our souls and those who make it burn.

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