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La familia: Rafael Agustin & Ingrid Rojas Contreras [BILINGUAL]
General Admission Pass required for entry
Stories of the search to understand your family history—and your place in it—moderated by Lilly Gonzalez (San Antonio Book Festival).
Illegally Yours is a funny and poignant memoir about how as a teenager, TV writer Rafael Agustin (Jane the Virgin) accidentally discovered he was undocumented and how that revelation turned everything he thought he knew about himself and his family upside down. From Ingrid Rojas Contreras, the bestselling author of Fruit of the Drunken Tree, The Man Who Could Move Clouds is a dazzling, kaleidoscopic memoir reclaiming her family’s otherworldly legacy.
Historias de la búsqueda para comprender la historia de su familia, y su lugar en ella, moderado por Lilly Gonzalez.
Una memoria divertida y conmovedora sobre cómo, cuando era adolescente, el escritor de televisión Rafael Agustín (Jane la Virgen) descubrió accidentalmente que era indocumentado y cómo esa revelación puso patas arriba todo lo que creía saber sobre sí mismo y su familia. En El hombre que movía las nubes, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, la autora de La fruta del borrachero, nos entrega una deslumbrante historia caleidoscópica que recupera el legado místico de su familia.
Este evento es bilingüe, en español e inglés.
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