Date: Saturday, February 22, 2025
Time: 3 p.m. – 3:45 p.m., EST
Where: Virtual Event via Zoom
Tim Z. Hernandez, author of They Call You Back: A Lost History, A Search, A Memoir, will give a virtual talk for Writers & Books on February 22. He will be joined in conversation by Juan Felipe Herrera, United States Poet Laureate, 2015-2017. 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. This virtual event will be streamed via Zoom and is free (option to pay what you wish), sign-up here.
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.