The University of Arizona Press
Date: Friday, September 27, 2024
Time: 5 – 8 p.m., PST
Where: Coalinga College Auditorium, 300 Cherry Lane, Coalinga, CA
Date: Saturday, September 28, 2024
Time: 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., PST
Where: Los Gatos Canyon, on Los Gatos Creek Road approximately 15 miles west of Derrick Ave., Coalinga, CA
Tim Z. Hernandez, author of They Call You Back: A Lost History, A Search, A Memoir, will speak at the Los Gatos Plane Crash Two-Day Memorial Event presented by The R.C. Baker Museum and Coalinga College. Beginning September 27, at the Coalinga College Auditorium, there will be food vendors and Mariachi in the Quad followed by a community presentation with Hernandez and special guests 6 – 7 p.m, concluding with a book signing 7 – 8 p.m. On September 28, at Los Gatos Canyon, the Crash Memorial Dedication will be held 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
About the book:
A haunting, an obsession, a calling: Tim Z. Hernandez has been searching for people his whole life. Now, in this highly anticipated memoir, he takes us along on an investigative odyssey through personal and collective history to uncover the surprising conjunctions that bind our stories together.
Hernandez’s mission to find the families of the twenty-eight Mexicans who were killed in the 1948 plane wreck at Los Gatos Canyon formed the basis for his acclaimed documentary novel All They Will Call You, which the San Francisco Chronicle dubbed “a stunning piece of investigative journalism,” and the New York Times hailed as “painstaking detective work by a writer who is the descendant of farmworkers.”
In this riveting new work, Hernandez continues his search for the plane crash victims while also turning the lens on himself and his ancestral past, revealing the tumultuous and deeply intimate experiences that have fueled his investigations—a lifelong journey haunted by memory, addiction, generational trauma, and the spirit world.
