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NCW Reads with Erika L. Sanchez (Zoom Event)

NCW Reads with Erika L. Sanchez (Zoom Event) Online

This virtual event will be held through the Zoom webinar platform. Registrants will receive an email with the webinar link. Attendees will have the opportunity to submit questions through the Zoom Q&A feature.

Join us for a conversation with New York Times Bestselling Author, Erika L. Sanchez to share about her book, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter.  

“This gripping debut about a Mexican-American misfit is alive and crackling.”

— THE NEW YORK TIMES

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian meets Jane the Virgin in this poignant but laugh-out-loud funny contemporary YA about losing a sister and finding yourself. 

When her sister Olga dies in a tragic accident, Julia is left to pick up the pieces of her family. She is also expected to fill the shoes of her sister. But Julia has never been the perfect Mexican daughter.

As Julia struggles to find her place in the world, she discovers Olga was not as perfect as everyone thought. Who was her sister really? And how can Julia even attempt to live up to an impossible ideal?

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter is soon to be a netflix film directed by America Ferrera! The book was a National Book Award Finalist and instant New York Times bestseller!

Date:
Thursday, October 10, 2024
Time:
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Time Zone:
Pacific Time - US & Canada (change)
Library:
Virtual
Online:
This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
Audience:
  Adults  
Categories:
  Presentation  

Registration is required. There are 422 seats available.

Erika L. Sánchez is the daughter of Mexican immigrants. Her debut poetry collection, Lessons on Expulsion, was a finalist for the PEN America Open Book Award. Her debut young adult novel, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter was a #1 New York Times bestseller, a National Book Awards finalist, and Tomás Rivera Award winner. Time has recognized it as one of the best YA novels of all time. It is now is being made into a MGM Orion film directed by America Ferrera. She is an executive producer in the project. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter has also been adapted to the theater at Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago, Seattle Rep Theater, and Greenway Court Theater in Los Angeles. Also, her novel has been banned across the country. Most recently, Sánchez published a critically acclaimed memoir-in-essays titled Crying in the Bathroom with Viking Books. It won the Chicago Review of Books Nonfiction award and has been optioned for television. Sánchez was a Fulbright Scholar, a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent fellow from the Poetry Foundation, a Princeton Arts Fellow, a recipient of the 21st Century Award from the Chicago Public Library Foundation, and a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in poetry. Sánchez earned a BA from UIC and an MFA from the University of New Mexico. Her books have been translated and published in Korea, Taiwan, United Kingdom, Brazil, France, Mexico, Poland, Turkey, and Italy. She’s appeared on WGN, PBS, NPR, Good Morning America, Telemundo, Univision, and MSNBC. Erika holds an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from New School University. She lives in Chicago with her family

All NCW Libraries programs are free and open to the public. All attendees must comply with the NCW Libraries Code of Conduct.

Event Organizer

Alicia O'Dell

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