presents
a 2024 Author Talk
SUNDAY, JULY 14
FREE EVENT
AT THE FALLBROOK LIBRARY
Doors open at 1:30 PM
Author Talk at 2PM
followed by
“YOUR NAME IN A NOVEL” Auction
Your name or the name of your choice in the author’s next novel.
RAFFLE DRAWING
BOOK SALES & SIGNING
AWARD WINNING
&
NEW YORK TIMES
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
LUIS ALBERTO URREA
Hailed by NPR as a “literary badass” and a “master storyteller with a rock and roll heart,” Luis Alberto Urrea is a prolific and acclaimed writer who uses his dual-culture life experiences to explore greater themes of love, loss and triumph. A 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist for nonfiction and a Guggenheim fellow, Urrea is the critically acclaimed and best-selling author of 19 books, winning numerous awards for his poetry, fiction and essays. Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and American mother, Urrea is most recognized as a border writer, though he says, “I am more interested in bridges, not borders.” Urrea newest book, Good Night, Irene, takes as inspiration his mother’s own Red Cross service. With its affecting and uplifting portrait of friendship and valor in harrowing circumstances, Good Night, Irene powerfully demonstrates yet again that Urrea’s “gifts as a storyteller are prodigious” (NPR)
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Inspired by his mother’s service as a Donut Dollie with the American Red Cross during World War II, the book delves into the crucial role these women played in maintaining troop morale and providing aid to wounded soldiers after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
In World War II Europe, the women pictured are (l-r) the author’s mother, Phyllis, and fellow Donut Dollies, Jill and Helen standing before their Red Cross Clubmobile, the Cheyenne.
