The University of Arizona Press
Date: Saturday, April 5, 2025
Time: 4 – 5 p.m., EDT
Where: Third Room, 46 Wall Street, Asheville, NC
Join Tim Z. Hernandez at the Connect Beyond Festival where he will read and speak about his book, They Call You Back: A Lost History, A Search, A Memoir. The Connect Beyond Festival celebrates art and culture through a weekend of panels, film screenings and workshops that explore the intersection of art, film and storytelling. After the reading, Hernandez will engage attendees in a fireside chat and writing exercise.
This event is open to the public with tickets ranging from $0-$50. Visit the website for more information.
About the book:
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.
