Maria Venegas author of Bulletproof Vest The Ballad of an Outlaw and His Daughter

“Maria Venegas is a transfixing writer. Her voice is tough, vulnerable, humorous, insightful and always rousingly alive. American readers have rarely encountered a depiction of Mexican lives so true, unsentimental, and moving as in this emotionally complex story of an Americanized young woman and her outlaw father who lives by the hard violent codes of Mexico profundo.” —Francisco Goldman, author of Say Her NameThe Avid Reader Show is sponsored by Wellington Square Bookshop. It airs every Monday at 5PM EST on WCHE AM 1520. Please visit us at www.wellingtonsquarebooks.com