Immigration Memoirs: 2019 National Book Festival

Reyna Grande discussed "A Dream Called Home," Aleksandar Hemon discussed "My Parents: An Introduction/This Does Not Belong to You" and Suketu Mehta discussed "This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto" at the 2019 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
- Reyna Grande is the recipient of the 2015 Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature. Her first novel, "Across a Hundred Mountains," received a 2006 El Premio Aztlan Literary Award, a 2007 American Book Award and a 2010 Latino Books into Movies Award. Her second novel, "Dancing with Butterflies," was critically acclaimed and was the recipient of a 2010 International Latino Book Award in its Best Women's Issues category, and a 2010 Las Comadres & Friends National Latino Book Club Selection. She was also a 2003 PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellow. "The Distance Between Us" was a 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist and has been selected by numerous citywide read programs. Her new book is a memoir, "A Dream Called Home: A Memoir."
- Aleksandar Hemon is the author of "The Making of Zombie Wars; The Book of My Lives," which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; "The Lazarus Project," which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and a New York Times best-seller; and three books of short stories, including "Nowhere Man," which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation. He has recently published "My Parents: An Introduction/This Does Not Belong to You," a dual memoir.
- Suketu Mehta is the author of "Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found," which won the Kiriyama Prize and the Hutch Crossword Award, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His work has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Granta, Harper's Magazine, Time and Newsweek, and has been featured on NPR's "Fresh Air" and "All Things Considered." He is an associate professor of journalism at New York University. His new memoir is "This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto."
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