Seattle: Jazmina Barrera and Lydia Kiesling
7:00 pm PT
Third Place Books Ravenna | 6504 20th Ave NE | Seattle, Washington
Two Lines Press and Third Place Books welcome Jazmina Barrera for a discussion of her new book, Linea Nigra: An Essay on Pregnancy and Earthquakes, translated by Christina MacSweeney. Part memoir and part manifesto, Linea Nigra is an extraordinary read for its seriousness, intelligence, and expressions of delight—what Barrera calls the “simple, clear, almost ridiculous happiness I feel eighty times a day” that comes from parenthood.
Jazmina Barrera will be joined in conversation by Lydia Kiesling, author of The Golden State. This in-person event is free and open to the public, but registration is required in advance.
Copies of Linea Nigra will be available for purchase at Third Place Books. This event will include a public signing and time for audience Q&A.
Jazmina Barrera’s books have been published in nine countries and translated to English, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, and French. Her book Cuerpo extraño (Foreign Body) was awarded the Latin American Voices prize by Literal Publishing, and On Lighthouses was chosen for the Indie Next list by IndieBound. Linea Nigra was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Autobiography Prize, CANIEM’s Book of the Year award, and the Amazon Primera Novela (First Novel) Award. She is editor and co-founder of Ediciones Antílope. She lives in Mexico City.
Lydia Kiesling is the author of The Golden State, a 2018 National Book Foundation “5 under 35” honoree, a finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. She is a contributing editor at The Millions and Zyzzyva and her writing appears in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker online, The Cut, and elsewhere.