The University of Arizona Press
Date: Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Time: 6 p.m., CDT
Where: Sam Houston State University, Austin Hall, 1741 University Ave., Huntsville, TX
will be reading from her debut novel All That Rises, at Sam Houston State University. She will also be available to sign books. The reading is presented by the University’s MFA in Writing, Editing, and Publishing. García’s award-winning short fiction has appeared in Narrative Magazine and most recently in phoebe and the anthology Puro Chicanx Writers of the 21st Century. She is a past recipient of a fellowship from the Rona Jaffe Foundation. This in-person event is free and open to the public.
About the book:
All That Rises is a story of families and conflict in El Paso, Texas. In this novel, mysteries are unraveled, odd alliances are forged, and the boundaries between lives blur in destiny-changing ways—all in a place where the physical border between two countries is as palpable as it is porous, and the legacies of history are never far away. There are no easy solutions to the issues the characters face in this story, and their various realities—as undocumented workers, Border Patrol agents, the American supervisor of a Mexican factory employing an impoverished workforce—never play out against a black-and-white moral canvas. Instead, they are complex human beings with sometimes messy lives who struggle to create a place for themselves in a part of the world like no other, even as they are forced to confront the lives they have made.
