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Join us for this very special Zoom event celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with Chicago area native and award-winning author, Erika Sánchez. The daughter of Mexican immigrants is a poet, essayist, and novelist. Her debut young adult novel, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter was a #1 New York Times bestseller and a National Book Awards finalist. Time has recognized it as one of the best YA novels of all time. It is now being made into a film directed by America Ferrera. Most recently, Sánchez published a critically acclaimed memoir-in-essays titled Crying in the Bathroom, which won the Chicago Review of Books Nonfiction award and has been optioned for television.
Registration for this program is done through Illinois Libraries Present, click on the link to the right to register.