December 2014: Anjanette Delgado, author of The Clairvoyant of Calle Ocho, published by Kesington
About the Book:
The Clairvoyant of Calle Ocho
By Anjanette Delgado
Published by Kensington
ISBN-13: 978-1617733901
“A thrilling, hilarious, and mysterious romp.” –Patricia Engel, author of It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris
Two divorces have taught Mariela Estevez that she’s better suited to being a mistress than a wife. Whose heart needs all that “forever after” trouble? Still, her affair with her married lover, Hector, has become problematic–especially because he’s also a tenant in her apartment building in the heart of Miami’s Calle Ocho in Little Havana. But when Hector is found dead just steps from Mariela’s back door, on the eve of her fortieth birthday, she’s forced to examine her life–and come up with a plan to save it, fast…
Complicating matters, Hector’s passing sparks the unexpected return of a gift Mariela rejected years ago and thought she’d never have to face again: clairvoyance. Suddenly, Mariela’s visions come swiftly and unbidden, as do revelations about her other tenants. Lost loves, hidden yearnings, old jealousies–all reside on Calle Ocho. Most of all, Mariela’s second sight awakens her not just to the truth about Hector’s death and the secrets in others’ lives–but to the possibilities blooming within her own.
With warmth, wit, and insight, award-winning author Anjanette Delgado explores one woman’s flawed but heartfelt attempt to live and love well, transporting readers to the center of contemporary Little Havana and a community of uniquely human, unforgettable characters.
“The Clairvoyant of Calle Ocho reminds me of why I started reading in the first place–to be enchanted, to be carried away from my world and dropped into a world more vivid and incandescent. Anjanette Delgado loves her characters, even the miscreants, and makes us love them too.” –John Dufresne, author of No Regrets, Coyote
About the Author:
Photo by Javier Romero
Anjanette Delgado
Anjanette Delgado is an award-winning novelist, speaker, and journalist who has written or produced for media outlets such as NBC, CNN, NPR, Univision, HBO and Vogue Magazine’s Latam and Mexico divisions, and for Telemundo, among others. She’s covered presidential coups, elections, the Olympics, both Iraq wars and the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Early in her career, she became fascinated with heartbreak, the different ways in which it occurs, and the consequences it brings. Her human-interest television series “Madres en la Lejanía” won an Emmy award for its depiction of Latina mothers working as undocumented nannies in the United States, while living with the consequences of having left their own children behind in search of a better life.
Her original screenplay for HBO, “Good in Bed,” was a thesis on the life moments in which sex, love, identity, self, and society collide.
Her first novel, The Heartbreak Pill (Atria Books, 2008, 2009), about a modern-day Latina enmeshed in a battle between her brain and her heart, won first prize at the Latino International Book Award for Best Romance in English, was a Triple Crown Winner for Best Romance Book in Spanish in 2010, and first prize for Best Romance in Latino Literacy’s “Books into Movies” competition in 2011.
Anjanette has an MFA in Creative Writing from Florida International University and teaches writing at the Florida Literary Arts Center every chance she gets. She is the mother of two daughters, lives in Miami with her husband, Daniel, and her mini-daschund, Chloe.