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Building a Memoir’s Global World for an American Audience

Boston Book Festival · Boston Public Library · Central Library — Orientation Room · 700 Boylston St · Boston · Back Bay · Boston

Memoirists whose stories span three centuries and countries from Colombia to China take up how to engage American readers with people often othered in U.S. culture: Xujun Eberlein (The River Drowns the Able Swimmer), Lorena Hernández Leonard (Salsipuedes: Leave If You Can) and Margaret Woo (The City of Jade Trees). They discuss rendering places readers may never see and making the past legible. Alexis Chen Johnson moderates.