The Georgia Review and Avid Bookshop present an author talk and book signing with Jennine Capó Crucet and Brian Truong. Each author will read from their passionate, funny and inspiring works that explore both the difficulties and blessings of living in immigrant communities. Crucet is an award-winning novelist, essayist and screenwriter living in North Carolina, originally born and raised in Miami to Cuban parents. Her novel Make Your Home Among Strangers won the International Latino Book Award, among others, and is now an all-campus read at over 40 U.S. universities. Truong is a Vietnamese-American writer living in Brooklyn who grew up in Texas. One of his essays won the 2023 Georgia Review Prose Prize, judged by Crucet, and he’s currently working on a memoir and essay collection.
WHO: Jennine Capó Crucet and Brian Truong
WHEN: Friday, Jan. 19, 7 p.m.
WHERE: ACC Library
HOW MUCH: FREE!
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