Reviews for Francine Rodriguez' short story collection, A Woman's Story. These stories focus on the lives of womens in and around downtown LA. The post Reviews for A Woman’s Story appeared first on Francine Rodriguez ..read more

Reviews for The Fortunate Accident, a legal thriller by author, Francine Rodriguez. Set in downtown Los Angeles. The post Reviews for The Fortunate Accident appeared first on Francine Rodriguez ..read more

Reviews for A Woman Like Me. This page contains. a collection of reviews for this thriller by Francine Rodriguez. The post Reviews for A Woman Like Me appeared first on Francine Rodriguez ..read more

I just finished reading Ally Wong’s excerpt from her new novel, that has a chapter on how to judge a good Asian restaurant. Everything she said made a lot of sense, and I started thinking about how you pick a good authentic Mexican restaurant, because there is a Mexican restaurant on every corner, every place you go. Since I’m a […] The post Mexican Food For Real appeared first on Francine Rodriguez ..read more

A Woman’s Story tells the stories of Latina women’s lives. Depicting conflict in gender bias, experiences of exploitation, violence, and powerlessness, sometimes resulting in pain and despair in their turbulent world. The post A Woman’s Story appeared first on Francine Rodriguez ..read more

My story “Finding My Father” has been published by Literary Yard, a non-profit journal. You can support both myself and a non-profit and platform by reading it here: Read “Finding My Father” The post Read “Finding My Father” on Literary Yard appeared first on Francine Rodriguez ..read more

Accessory To His Death Jeffrey stood out from the rest of us.  His skin was a lot whiter for one thing.  A lot whiter because he came from one of those really white-skinned families that moved here from the mid-west or someplace like that.  Some place where people only came in the palest shades of white, so translucent that you could see the blue veins peeking through.  Jeffrey’s round freckled face and his plump little legs in his plaid madras or seersucker shorts, burned a deep scarlet any time the sun fought its way through the smog and burned down on the pavement near d ..read more

                                          Finding My Father He didn’t come around that often.  By the time I was old enough to figure that out I realized it was always around the time my mother got her welfare check, the first and the fifteenth of the month.  He would stay a few days with us, sometimes up to a week.  On those days of the month, toward evening, I would start looking ..read more

Reviewed by: lfm1223 3 out of 4 stars Francine Rodriguez has written a very compelling novel about one woman’s journey through her largely difficult life. A Woman Like Me follows Genie, a transgender woman, as she tells her troubling life story full of hardships. The story starts with a boy growing up in Thailand and ends with a woman on the run in L.A. What life choices have taken her thousands of miles from home, and what is she running from? Francine has answered these questions seamlessly in a story so gripping, you’ll want more. What I enjoyed most about this book was how we ..read more

ARE DEMOCRATS AS WOKE AS THEY THINK?             After the results of the last Democratic contest, it was pretty obvious that voters were not interested in the female candidates, at least not in South Carolina.  So why is that?             You probably won’t find many people who will openly admit they wouldn’t vote for a woman candidate. In fact, a Gallup poll taken in 2018 states that 94% of individuals would vote for a woman for president.             But, all those traits that we associate with politicians like ambition, competence, aggressiveness, toughness, etc. are usually ident ..read more