{"id":7032,"date":"2026-02-21T11:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T16:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trasatlantica.org\/?page_id=7032"},"modified":"2026-05-04T07:27:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T11:27:04","slug":"la-costurera-de-chanel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/trasatlantica.org\/?page_id=7032","title":{"rendered":"La costurera de Chanel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Cuban author Wendy Guerra will present her last novel, La costurera de Chanel\/Chanel’s Seamstress<\/em>, on Saturday, April 18, 2026, in two different events and venues, organized in collaboration:
-The Baker Nord Institute for the Humanities, CWRU
-Cuyahoga Public Libraries System
-Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, CWRU
-Alianza Latina\/Latin Alliance, CWRU
-Julia de Burgos Cultural Arts Center
-Hexagon Books
-Ohio Arts Council<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please confirm your attendance by completing the form using the QR below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Conversation with Cuban author Wendy Guerra<\/strong>: Professors and writers Mabel Cuesta, Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00f3n Ruis\u00e1nchez, and Damaris Pu\u00f1ales-Alp\u00edzar will talk with the author about the novel and her creative writing process. The event will be in Spanish with English translation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MLK Library<\/strong>
Saturday, April 18, 2026, at 3 pm
10601 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book Signing: <\/strong>Wendy Guerra will be reading fragments of her last novel. This will be an excellent opportunity to talk with the author, know more about the novel, and get a signed copy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hegaxon Books<\/strong>
Saturday April 18, 2026, at 7 pm
2184 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Summary of the book:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s early summer in Arcachon, a small provincial city in France, and Simone Leblanc decides to reopen the sewing studio founded by her grandmother. Channeling her creativity to remodel the premises, and with the help of Teresa, her housekeeper and confidante, she has her designs in the showroom windows in time for the new season and the shop is soon full of customers.
 
But Simone has bigger ambitions: She does away with the corset, designs lighter dresses, favors linen and cotton over silk, experiments with bathing suits, and creates simple, genre-breaking patterns. Everything changes with a summer visitor from Paris, who introduces herself as Gabrielle Chanel and, with a quick eye for talent, proposes a partnership. The result is a collaboration that will revolutionize women\u2019s clothing and set a new standard for elegance. Chanel\u2019s Seamstress<\/em> chronicles their complicated friendship, from its beginnings in a coastal French town to the Paris of World War I, 1930s Cuba and Nazi-occupied France, as well as its unexpected outcome. Wendy Guerra blends reality and fiction, literary talent and appreciation of fashion in this fascinating portrait of two women who risked everything to follow their dreams.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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Click on the QR or scan it to register for both events, or for either one. <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Cuban author Wendy Guerra will present her last novel, La costurera de Chanel\/Chanel’s Seamstress, on Saturday, April 18, 2026, in two different events and venues, organized in collaboration: -The Baker Nord Institute for the Humanities, CWRU -Cuyahoga Public Libraries System -Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, CWRU -Alianza Latina\/Latin Alliance, CWRU -Julia de Burgos Cultural […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33188029,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_wpcom_ai_launchpad_about_page":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_gallery_page":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_contact_page":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_events_page":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_video_page":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_portfolio_piece":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7032","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2V8if-1Pq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5780,"url":"https:\/\/trasatlantica.org\/?page_id=5780","url_meta":{"origin":7032,"position":0},"title":"News and Events\/Noticias y eventos","author":"Soviet Cuba: Identities in Transition","date":"January 8, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"2026 Events: Octubre 17, 2026, 6.30 pm: Poes\u00eda itinerante_Oto\u00f1o 2026: Hexagon Books. 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