The University of Arizona Press
Date: Saturday, March 8, 2025
Time: 7:30 p.m., PST
Where: Verbatim Books, 3793 30th St., San Diego, CA
Tim Z. Hernandez, author of They Call You Back: A Lost History, A Search, A Memoir, will read and sign books at Verbatim Books on March 8. 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. Special guests include families of Los Gatos airplane crash. Local folk musician Joel Rafael will play a few songs, and Alicia Coronado will also read from her latest work.
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.
