The University of Arizona Press
Date: Saturday, April 12, 2025
Time: 1-2 p.m., CDT
Where: Swartz Stage, University of Texas, Southwest Campus, 300 Augusta Street, San Antonio, TX
Tim Z. Hernandez, author of They Call You Back: A Lost History, A Search, A Memoir, will be at San Antonio Book Festival on the panel “Migration and Memory.” He will be talking with Jessica Goudeau, author of We Were Illegal: Uncovering a Texas Family’s Mythmaking and Migration. Hernandez is an award-winning author, research scholar, and performer. He is an associate professor in the University of Texas at El Paso’s Bilingual Creative Writing program.
About the book:
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.
They Call You Back is the true chronicle of one man’s obsession to restore dignity to an undignified chapter in America’s past, while at the same time making a case for why we must heal our personal wounds if we are ever to heal our political ones.
