Book Discussion Group Meeting, Saturday, January 6, 2018, 2:00 PM, San Leandro Main Library

The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez

Cristina Henriquez was born in Delaware in 1977. Her father was an immigrant from Panama. She received her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. In addition to The Book of Unknown Americans, which was published in 2014, Henriquez has written two other books: The World in Half, a novel published in 2009; and Come Together, Fall Apart, containing a novella and eight short stories published in 2006. She has also written fiction and nonfiction for numerous periodicals and anthologies. She now lives in Chicago with her family.

In the video below, Henriquez talks about The Book of Unknown Americans, and what influenced her to write it. (You're probably going to need to turn your sound way up to hear this.)



Growing out of The Book of Unknown Americans, Cristina Hernandez has started an Unknown Americans tumblr page where immigrants to the US are invited to tell their unique stories.



You can visit the Unknown Americans Project here.