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For More Information Contact: Samantha Graven, Director
Parsons Public Library, 620-421-5920
Parsons Public Library Hosts Book Discussion
Parsons Public Library will host a book discussion of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L Sánchez at 6 p.m., Monday, April 28. Sister Rosemary Kolich will lead the discussion. Copies of the book are available at the library.
The event is the third of three talks in the Beyond the Border series provided by Humanities Kansas. The books explore Latino immigration narratives and how they are essential to the entire multicultural landscape of American literature.
Part mystery, part love story, part inner quest, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter follows Julia, a teenager coming to terms with losing her sister and finding herself amid the pressures, expectations, and stereotypes of growing up in a Mexican-American home.
Sanchez is the daughter of Mexican immigrants. Her debut poetry collection, Lessons on Expulsion, was a finalist for the PEN America Open Book Award. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter was a New York Times bestseller, National Book Award finalist, and Tomás Rivera Award winner. Recognized by Time as one of the best YA novels of all time, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter has also been adapted for the stage at Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago and is being made into a film directed by America Ferrera.
Kolich is a professor emeritus of English at the University of Saint Mary in Leavenworth, KS, where she taught for 25 years. She earned her masters from the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College and her PhD from Saint Louis University. One of the courses she teaches is called Good Books, which pairs work from theology and literature with similar themes. Her life and work center around good books, and she enjoys talking about literature with all ages and groups.
Humanities Kansas, a non-profit cultural organization, sponsors the discussions as part of its Talk About Literature in Kansas program. The group furnished the books and discussion leaders for the Parsons TALK series. More information about Humanities Kansas can be found at www.humanitieskansas.org.
Parsons Public Library is located at 311 S. 17th. For more information, contact the library by calling 620-421-5920.
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