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AAUW hopes you enjoy the 1999-2000 ¡Adelante! Book Club selections, and encourages members and nonmembers to open a dialogue of women and diversity in their communities.
September (Hispanic Heritage Month, Sept. 15-Oct. 15)
Dreaming in Cuban: A Novel
by Cristina Garcia (1993)
A chronicle of the circumstances and inner lives of various members of a Cuban family in exile in the 1970s and 1980s.
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October (Disability Awareness Month)
A Loss for Words: The Story of Deafness in a Family
by Lou Ann Walker (1987)
A personal testament of what it means to be a hearing child of profoundly deaf parents.
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November (Native American Heritage Month)
Solar Storms: A Novel
by Linda Hogan (1997)
The story of five generations of Native American women and their struggle to preserve their way of life.
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December
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
by Anne Fadiman (1998)
The story of a family of Hmong immigrants and their experience with the U.S. medical community following the onset of their daughter's epilepsy.
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January
Deborah, Golda, and Me: Being Female and Jewish in America
by Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1992)
A leading feminist activist, author, and nationally known lecturer writes of her struggle to reconcile her feminist and Jewish identities.
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February (Black History Month)
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
by Sarah Louise Delany and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth (1996)
Two sisters recall the triumphs and tragedies of their lives together, which span more than a century of the African American experience.
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March (Women's History Month)
Kindred
by Octavia E. Butler (1988)
Through science fiction, the author addresses some of the most fundamental questions about slavery.
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April
The Magic Daughter: A Memoir of Living With Multiple Personality Disorder
by Jane Phillips (1996)
In a memoir that began as a suicide note, a woman with multiple personality disorder tells of her journey toward wholeness.
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May (Asian Pacific American Heritage Month)
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
by Maxine Hong Kingston (1989)
A Chinese American woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories, and events of her California childhood that have shaped her identity.
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June (Gay/Lesbian Pride Month)
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
by Jeanette Winterson (1997)
The story of a bright and rebellious orphan adopted into an evangelical household, and her coming to terms with her sexuality.
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July
Lucy
by Jamaica Kincaid (1991)
A teenager from the West Indies faces the realities of family life in the United States, as compared to life in her native country.
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August 
Half and Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural
edited by Claudine C. O'Hearn (1998)
A collection of personal essays on the experience of being biracial and bicultural offers a broad spectrum of meaning for race and culture.
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