Libros Para El Viaje/ Books for the Journey
Libros Para El Viaje/ Books for the Journey
A Plática/ A Conversation with Author Denise Chávez and Kari Lenander, Executive Director of the Border Servant Corps
Thursday, April 15, 2021 at 5 p.m. MST
Register to attend this Zoom event at: https://tinyurl.com/LibrosParaElViaje
Denise Chávez
A true child of La Frontera, Chávez is a novelist, playwright, actor, community activist and teacher whose work focuses on the border corridor of southern New Mexico, West Texas, and Northern México. While her work is centered in this ever-challenged break between the worlds, her characters speak to universal themes.
Chávez’s books include The King and Queen of Comezón, A Taco Testimony: Meditations on Family, Food and Culture, Loving Pedro Infante, Face of An Angel, and a short story collection, The Last of the Menu Girls and a children’s book, La Mujer Que Sabía El Idioma de Los Animales/The Woman Who Knew the Language of the Animals. Chávez has performed her one-woman shows, Novena Narrativas: The Novena Narratives and El Muro/The Wall: A Chorus of Immigrant Women’s Voices throughout the U.S.
Since May 2018, Chávez has distributed books in Spanish and Portuguese as well as bilingual English/Spanish books to Refugee, Asylum and Migrant families on the U.S./México border in Las Cruces, New Mexico, El Paso, Texas, Juárez, Anapra and Palomas, México in a program called Libros Para El Viaje/Books for the Journey, in collaboration The Border Servant Corps in Las Cruces. Thousands of books have been donated by publishers, bookstores, booksellers, writers, artists, agents, filmmakers and hundreds of readers and sponsors.
Chávez will share her stories of working on Libros Para El Viaje. Special guest, Kari Lenander, Executive Director of The Border Servant Corps, will also join the program.
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