Community Corner
Luis Alberto Urrea at Lake Zurich Performing Arts Center
(Little Brown $14.99)
Tuesday October 8 at 7:00 p.m.
Lake Zurich Performing Arts Center
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Luis Alberto Urrea, acclaimed author of 14 books, including
fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, will speak as part of Ela Area Public
Library’s “Meet the Author” program.
About Queen of America:
At turns heartbreaking, uplifting, fiercely romantic, and riotously
funny, QUEEN OF AMERICA tells the unforgettable story of a young woman
coming of age and finding her place in a new world. Beginning where Luis
Alberto Urrea's bestselling The Hummingbird's Daughter left off, QUEEN
OF AMERICA finds young Teresita Urrea, beloved healer and "Saint of
Cabora," with her father in 1892 Arizona. But, besieged by pilgrims in
desperate need of her healing powers, and pursued by assassins, she has
no choice but to flee the borderlands and embark on an extraordinary
journey into the heart of turn-of-the-century America.
Teresita's passage will take her to New York, San Francisco, and St.
Louis, where she will encounter European royalty, Cuban poets, beauty
queens, anxious immigrants and grand tycoons-and, among them, a man who
will force Teresita to finally ask herself the ultimate question: is a
saint allowed to fall in love?
There will be a book signing following the program with books for sale provided by Lake Forest Book Store.
Location:
Lake Zurich Performing Arts Center 300 Church St., Lake Zurich, Illinois60047