In the Shadows of the Freeway: Growing Up Brown and Queer with Lydia Otero Reading and Talk
When: Sat., Feb. 29, 6-8 p.m. 2020
The Esperanza is holding a reading and plática (talk) with Lydia R. Otero. Her latest book, In the Shadows of the Freeway: Growing Up Brown & Queer, is a coming-of-age memoir about growing up in a Southwest city invested in urban development. Otero reveals the day-to-day survival mechanisms they depended upon, the exhilaration of first love, the love of reading and the support she received from key family members as they tried to gain a sense of belonging in a world mired in dislocation.
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