The Writer’s Voice: Francisco Goldman on Say Her Name, Hector Tobar on The Barbarian Nurseries, Elizabeth Nunez on Boundaries and Esmeralda Santiago on Conquistadora
Saturday, Nov. 19, 11:00 a.m., Auditorium (Building 1, 2nd Floor, Room 1261)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Francisco Goldman
Say Her Name (Grove, $24.00), is the highly personal account of Francisco Goldman's life in the aftermath of his young wife's drowning. “Passionate and moving….beautifully written…," says The New York Times. Goldman is the author of three novels, including The Devine Husband, and the nonfiction work, The Art of Political Murder: Who killed the Bishop?
Hector Tobar
Hector Tobar's novel, The Barbarian Nurseries (Sceptre, $27.00), tells the story of an upper-middle class married couple, Scott and Maureen, who, following a fight, leave their home and their children. When Scott and Maureen finally return home, the children have gone. Shocked at their own behavior and terrified by what people will think of them, they do what any right-minded middle-class parents would do. They lie. And accuse the maid of abduction. Héctor Tobar, now a weekly columnist for the Los Angeles Times, is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and a novelist. He is the author of Translation Nation and The Tattooed Soldier.
Elizabeth Nunez
Elizabeth Nunez's novel, Boundaries (Akashic, $22.95), is the story of Anna, the head of a specialized imprint at a major publishing house, who is challenged for her position by an ambitious upstart. Accused of not understanding American culture, particularly African American culture, Anna turns for advice to her boyfriend, a Caribbean American, who attempts to convince her that immigrants must accept limitations on their freedom in America. Nunez is the award-winning author of seven novels, including Anna In-Between, a New York Times Editors’ Choice.
Esmeralda Santiago
Nació en San Juan, Puerto Rico, en 1948 y se mudó a Estados Unidos a los 13 años. Se graduó de la Universidad de Harvard y obtuvo después una Maestría de Letras en el Sarah Lawrence College y un doctorado en el Trinity University. Es autora de los libros de memorias Cuando era puertorriqueña, Casi una mujer, y El amante turco, entre otros. Su obra ha aparecido en The New York Times, The Boston Globe y House & Garden, así como en programas de NPR. Presentará en la Feria su reciente novela histórica, Conquistadora (Alfaguara, 2011).
Set in mid-19th-century Puerto Rico, Esmerelda Santiago's historical novel, Conquistadora (Knopf, $27.50) is the epic story of Ana Larragoity Cubillas, who faces unrelenting heat, disease and isolation, and the dangers of the untamed countryside, even as she relishes the challenge of running her sugar plantation, Hacienda los Gemelos. But when the U.S. Civil War breaks out, Ana finds her livelihood, and perhaps her life, threatened by the very people on whose backs her wealth has been built. Santiago is the author of three memoirs: When I Was Puerto Rican,Almost a Woman -- which she adapted into a Peabody Award–winning film for PBS’s Masterpiece Theatre -- and The Turkish Lover; the novel América’s Dream; and a children’s book, A Doll for Navidades.
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Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Auditorium (Building 1, 2nd Floor, Room 1261)
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