Tue, Sep 21
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Roberto Lovato, Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas
In conversation with Kency Cornejo. An urgent, no-holds-barred tale of gang life, guerrilla warfare, intergenerational trauma, and interconnected violence between the United States and El Salvador. An LA Times Best Book of the Year • A New York Times Editors' Pick • A Newsweek 25 Best Fall Books.
Date, Time & Location
Sep 21, 2021, 6:00 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
We will be taking COVID precautions, masks will be required for the duration of the program and seating will be spaced accordingly. We will be simultaneously live Zooming our events for those out of town or who would prefer it. You can register to watch it here on Zoom.
Pre-order signed copies of the paperback, publishing September 7.
Roberto will be in conversation with Kency Cornejo, Associate Professor, Modern/Contemporary Latin American Art, University of New Mexico.
Roberto Lovato’s memoir excavates family history and reveals the intimate stories beneath headlines about gang violence and mass Central American migration, one of the most important, yet least-understood humanitarian crises of our time—and one in which the perspectives of Central Americans in the United States have been silenced and forgotten.
The child of Salvadoran immigrants, Roberto Lovato grew up in 1970s and 80s San Francisco as MS-13 and other notorious Salvadoran gangs were forming…