This is a beautiful book.  I picked it up because I read a few good reviews and because it hit a lot of categories in this year’s reading challenge.  I didn’t really have any idea what it was about. It’s about five women -“cantoras” or “women who sing” (implied: to other women…) in Uruguay in the 70s and 80s.  I did not know this, but in 1977, a military government Uruguay, a military government came to power and, unsurprisingly, crushed dissent, as you do when […]