The University of Arizona Press
Date: Saturday, November 16, 2024
Time: 1:15 p.m., CST
Where: Texas Tent, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX
Tim Z. Hernandez, author of They Call You Back: A Lost History, A Search, A Memoir, is a featured author at this year’s Texas Book Festival. He will speak on “Texas Roots, Hidden Truths: Uncovering Family Histories and Lost Legacies” with author Jessica Goudeau. A book signing at 2:15 p.m. will follow the talk. The free festival takes place in downtown Austin, along 11th Street and Congress Avenue, on November 16 and 17. 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:
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.
