EPISODE · Sep 29, 2021 · 24 MIN
Hispanic Heritage Month Author Interview with Adrianna Cuevas
from TLA's Libraries Transform Texas Podcast · host Texas Library Association
Today on the Libraries Transform Texas podcast series (episode 2, season 2) we interview Texas author Adrianna Cuevas. Cuevas is a first-generation Cuban-American originally from Miami, Florida whose middle grade debut novel "The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez" received a Pura Belpre Honor this last year. In the last month, her new novel "Cuba in My Pocket" just released, a semi-biographical journey of her own father's immigration from Cuba to Florida during the 1960s Castro regime. Librarian Cate Sweeney talks with Cuevas about everything from Cuban cooking to magical realism and what it is like to go from living in a Cuban rich culture in America to suddenly not seeing any cultural identity represented in your surroundings. Join us!
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Today on the Libraries Transform Texas podcast series (episode 2, season 2) we interview Texas author Adrianna Cuevas. Cuevas is a first-generation Cuban-American originally from Miami, Florida whose middle grade debut novel "The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez" received a Pura Belpre Honor this last year. In the last month, her new novel "Cuba in My Pocket" just released, a semi-biographical journey of her own father's immigration from Cuba to Florida during the 1960s Castro regime. Librarian Cate Sweeney talks with Cuevas about everything from Cuban cooking to magical realism and what it is like to go from living in a Cuban rich culture in America to suddenly not seeing any cultural identity represented in your surroundings. Join us!
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