Josefina Lopez, the brilliant writer/director behind the excellent film Real Women Have Curves, has penned a sexy new novel about a Latina who moves to Paris to learn to cook, called Hungry Woman in Paris.
Ms. Lopez, in a conversation with actress Lupe Ontiveros on the ColorsNW web site, says that the delicious novel was the result of two events in her own life.
First, Ms. Lopez says, she took up cooking classes to try to help ease her depression. Gomez is proud of Ms. Lopez for being open about suffering from this debilitating disorder - it will helps lots of other people with depression to know that someone as accomplished and motivated as she also deals with it.
Second, Ms. Lopez says she chose Paris as the setting for her book after she and her husband, disgusted with the Iraq war and W being selected for a second term, moved to France. After 18 months living abroad, Ms. Lopez decided to return to Los Angeles and dedicate her non-writing time to fighting for immigrant rights. Orale!
Real Women Have Curves was a terrific film that made Gomez feel better about eating buckets of menudo, and we are all about a Mexican chef in Paris. Congrats to Ms. Lopez for turning her talents to prose, and for taking a political stand, both at home and around the world.
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Her book is on my "to read" list. :) On another note, I love this picture of her.
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