Hot Tamara
Mexican American womenMexican American artistsFirst lovesWomen immigrantsFiction
4.0
Open LibraryAbout this book
Unwilling to settle for a safe life, twenty-six-year-old Tamara Contreras yearns to escape her role as the perfect daughter to pursue her own dreams, but her encounter with Will Benavides threatens to turn her life upside down.
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Mexican American womenMexican American artistsFirst lovesWomen immigrantsFictionFire fighters
Setting
Los Angeles (Calif.)
About the author
Mary Castillo
1974
Celebrated Latina author, Mary Castillo, became a writer when given an assignment to create a fairy tale book in the third grade. Screenplays came first, but when she wrote her first novel she found her life's work. Known for her humorous characters and the crazy situations they get themselves into, Latina magazine called Mary "an author to look out for," and selected In Between Men and Names I Call My Sister for the Top 10 Summers Reads in July 2009. OC Metro Magazine named Mary one of the hottest 25 people in The O.C. She has also been profiled in Orange County Register, Coast, The Arizona Republic and San Diego Union Tribune. Her debut, Hot Tamara was a Cosmopolitan Magazine "Red Hot Read…
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