Ada Ferrer’s Keeper of My Kin: Memoir of an Immigrant Daughter is a tale of migration, separation, and a family at a crossroads. In 1963, Ferrer’s mother fled Cuba with her infant daughter, leaving behind her young son, Poly, a story Ferrer has woven into a multigenerational tale of revolution, memory, and belonging, drawing on letters and government documents to reveal the lasting imprint of history. Reyna Grande’s Migrant Heart: Essays About Things I Can’t Forget is a memoir in essays that illuminates the hidden cost of the American dream and the complex journey of healing that follows survival. Grande shares how living between two nations, two languages, and two identities has shaped the woman, mother, and writer she became, as she explores the ongoing work of stitching herself back together. And in East of the River: A Memoir of Los Angeles Girlhood, multidisciplinary artist Guadalupe Rosales chronicles her Boyle Heights childhood and adolescence in East L.A., when she lost loved ones to violence and struggled with drugs and depression. Here, her frank, intimate prose captures the joy and danger, the freedom and fear pulsing through that time, and how sisterhood helped her survive it. Moderating is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Mirta Ojito, La Memoria de las Olas/Deeper than the Ocean.
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