Amalya Shandelman
Travel from Texas and into Argentina alongside author Gisela Heffes in her new novel, which follows a woman attending to her ailing father in a place that was once home and is now an unfamiliar landscape. Alongside the Johns Hopkins University Latin American literature & culture professor at this reading will be translator Grady C. Wray, who’s worked on previous Heffes pieces Ischia and The Mobile Zero of Its Mouth. Local author and translator Liliana Valenzuela (Codex of Love: Bendita ternura) leads a post-reading Q&A followed by a booksigning. – James Scott
