The American Writers Museum presents an evening with SANDRA CISNEROS
AND FERNANDO FLORES. Join us for this enlightening and inspiring
conversation between one of America's most renowned writers and one of
its new rising stars.Fernando Flores's new book TEARS OF THE
TRUFFLEPIG was listed as one of LitHub and The Millions' most
anticipated books of 2019, and one of Buzzfeed's best books of Spring
2019. Cisneros said of Flores and the book, "Funny, futuristic,
phenomenal, Fernando A. Flores is from another galaxy. Fasten your
seat belt. You are in for a stupendous ride."
Written with infectious verve, bold imagination, and oddball humor,
this debut novel is an absurdist take on life along the border, an ode
to the myths of Mexican culture, a dire warning against the One
Percent's determination to dictate society's decline, and a nuanced
investigation of loss. It is also the perfect introduction for Flores:
a wonderfully weird, staggeringly smart new voice in American fiction
and a mythmaker of the highest order.
Flores was the recipient of a 2014 literary award from the Alfredo
Cisneros del Moral Foundation. His fiction and poetry have appeared in
various publications since 2006, and was featured as one of Ten
Writers to Watch in the October 2015 issue of Texas Monthly. He lives
in Austin, Texas.
He's joined by writer and performer Sandra Cisneros, award-winning
author of THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET, MacArthur Fellow, and founder of
the Macondo Foundation and the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation.
She has won the Fifth Star Award, the PEN Center USA Literary Award,
the Fairfax Prize, and the National Medal of the Arts awarded to her
by President Obama in 2016. Most recently, she received the Ford
Foundation's Art of Change Fellowship, was recognized among The
Frederick Douglass 200, and won the PEN/Nabokov Award for
international literature.
The conversation will be followed by a book signing by both authors.
Books will be available for purchase from Seminary Co-op Bookstore.
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