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An Evening with Junot Diaz
Friday, March 16, 2018 @ 6:30 pm
300 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL 33132 United States
Co-presented by Books & Books
Join us for an Evening with Junot Diaz, where he will speak on the genesis of his first picture book, Islandborn, a beautifully illustrated and moving meditation on the immigrant experience as a young child.
From New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Díaz comes a debut picture book about the magic of memory and the infinite power of the imagination. “Every kid in Lola’s school was from somewhere else. Hers was a school of faraway places.” So when Lola’s teacher asks the students to draw a picture of where their families immigrated from, all the kids are excited. Except Lola. She can’t remember The Island—she left when she was just a baby. But with the help of her family and friends, and their memories—joyous, fantastical, heartbreaking, and frightening—Lola’s imagination takes her on an extraordinary journey back to The Island. As she draws closer to the heart of her family’s story, Lola comes to understand the truth of her abuela’s words: “Just because you don’t remember a place doesn’t mean it’s not in you.” Gloriously illustrated and lyrically written, Islandborn is a celebration of creativity, diversity, and our imagination’s boundless ability to connect us—to our families, to our past and to ourselves.
Junot Díaz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Drown; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and This Is How You Lose Her, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist. A graduate of Rutgers University, Díaz is currently the fiction editor at Boston Review and the Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
TICKETS:
Child + Parent ticket: The purchase of this ticket entitles you to ONE (1) copy of ISLANDBORN by Junot Diaz from Books & Books and entrance for ONE (1) parent and ONE (1) child under 12 years of age to the event & signing line on Friday, March 16, 2017 at 6pm. The book releases on March 13, 2017 but we ask that you wait to receive your copy from us prior to the signing line on March 16, 2017.
Adult ticket: The purchase of this ticket entitles you to ONE (1) copy of ISLANDBORN by Junot Diaz from Books & Books and entrance for ONE (1) adult to the event & signing line on Friday, March 16, 2017 at 6pm. The book releases on March 13, 2017 but we ask that you wait to receive your copy from us prior to the signing line on March 16, 2017.
