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In the latest installment of the "Our Path Forward" Lecture Series, the Cambridge Public Library is thrilled to welcome Valeria Luiselli, the award-winning author of Lost Children Archive, Tell Me How It Ends, and other books.
In a time when our already-vulnerable immigrant communities are coming under increased scrutiny and threats to their security, Luiselli is someone who is willing to platform voices from within those very communities.
A passionate and refreshingly original thinker and writer, Valeria Luiselli has been doing this difficult work for a number of years. In 2019, she received a MacArthur Fellowship (the so-called "Genius Grant") for "challenging conventional notions of authorship in fiction, essays, and inventive hybrids of the two that pose profound questions about the various ways we piece together stories and document the lives of others."
In Tell Me How It Ends, which recounts Luiselli's experience as an interpreter for newly-arrived migrant children, she writes, "being aware of what is happening in our era and choosing to do nothing about it has become unacceptable."
Note: Spanish and Haitian Creole translation will be available over Zoom.
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