Powered by a membership club, Carlos Carrasquero helms this community resource.
Roswell’s second largest population is those of Hispanic descent, according to the 2010 U.S. Census. Venezuelan Carlos Carrasquero, an insurance agent by trade, is one of them. He moved to the metro Atlanta area in 2003 and while he’s always been an avid reader, he had a hard time finding books in Spanish for him and his family to read.
“I take my kids to the public library to check out books, in Spanish if we can, but the variety and availability isn’t great,” he says in Spanish.
Carrasquero dreamed of owning his own bookstore, and in May, he opened BiblioCactus Librería in a strip mall on Grimes Bridge Road in Roswell. A small neon green cactus welcomes you at the window, and the bookshelves lining the walls carry more than 8,000 Venezuelan and Latin American books, ranging from hard-to-find local authors to translated American bestsellers. The books come in the typical categories: fiction, self-help, technology, poetry, politics, religion, and more.
Lea la versión en español aquí
