![]() residents and individuals from the many countries of the Américas. Despite her stateside bona fides, the “Americans” of her novel’s title refers to both U.S. She spent summers in Panama, where her father was born, and lived in Texas long enough to be chosen as the state’s sole essayist for the 2008 anthology State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America. Born and raised in Delaware and now living in Chicago, she’s resided in Florida, Virginia, Indiana and Iowa. Henríquez is specially qualified to weigh in on the particular dilemmas of migration, cultural identity and displacement. ![]() ![]() They make one story become the only story.” In Texas, at least, Mexican immigration has largely defined the Latino narrative, but Cristina Henríquez’s big-hearted second novel challenges this “single story” by exploring a wide range of Latino experiences. In a 2009 TED talk titled “ The Danger of a Single Story,” Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie noted that “the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. Cristina Henríquez will read from The Book of Unknown Americans on June 18 at BookPeople in Austin June 19 at Brazos Bookstore in Houston and June 20 at the Dallas Museum of Art.
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