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Just released: Tell Me Something True, by Leila Cobo
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Book Description:
Gabriella always loved the picture of her mother kneeling in front of a bed of roses, smiling, beautiful and impossibly happy. But then she learns that her late mother hated gardening; that she had never wanted the house in the Hollywood hills, the successful movie producer husband, and possibly, her only daughter. When Gabriella discovers a journal--a book that begins as a new mother's letters to her baby girl, but becomes a secret diary--the final entry leaves one question unanswered: the night her mother died, was she returning to Colombia to end an affair, or was she abandoning her family for good?
What reviewers are saying:
“This first novel, one of the best that I have read all year, throws question after question at the reader and tosses us all back to our first loves and the choices we may or may not have made. Gabriella loses herself and finds herself in this entangled story. And we do the same.” -ReviewBroads
Tell Me Something True, while a debut novel, should be successful because it is raw, passionate, honest and fearless. -Examiner.com
“Definitely a book worth reading. This is a great novel about coming to terms with your past and understand what effect it has, and doesn’t have, on your future.” –Krishna’s Books
“A plot that leaves the reader asking for the follow-up.” -Semana
“This heartwrenching story focuses on how memories permeate the everyday relationships between mothers and daughters.” -RT (4/5 stars)
“A poignant tale of truths hidden and laid bare.” –Booklist
“A sweet debut novel […] the smooth prose and authentic Colombian setting provide a unique spin to familiar territory.” Publisher’s Weekly
“A good story, delicately told with pathos and compassion.”
-Bookloons.com
About Leila Cobo:
A Fulbright scholar from Cali, Colombia, Leila Cobo is Executive Editor for Latin Content and Programming for Billboard. Under her tenure, Billboard has expanded its coverage of Latin Music and for the first time in its more than 100-year history, the magazine has a complete weekly section dedicated solely to Latin music. Ms. Cobo is also in charge of coordinating the yearly Billboard Latin Music Conference, the largest gathering of the Latin music industry in the U.S. (and probably the world).
A focal point of the conference are Ms. Cobo’s exclusive “one on one” interviews with Latin music’s biggest stars, which have included Ricky Martin, Marc Anthony and Enrique Iglesias.
Under Ms. Cobo’s leadership, Billboard also launched Spanish language website billboardenespanol.com and the annual Regional Mexican Music Summit.
Ms. Cobo is also host and executive producer of “Estudio Billboard,” the acclaimed TV show that airs weekly on the V-Me network and features in-depth interviews with artists like Juanes, Maná, Juan Luis Guerra and Los Temerarios among many others.
Visit her Website.
Listen to an interview with the author.
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