Carmen Giménez, renowned poet and Executive Director and Publisher of Graywolf Press, is joined by Graywolf stellar author, translator and Pulitzer Prize winner, Cristina Rivera Garza, to discuss Autobiography of Cotton, Rivera Garza’s wide-ranging hybrid of fiction, biography, sociology, and philosophy. Deeply personal and politically acute, Rivera Garza crafts a new kind of border novel, an intimate fictionalization that tells how a brittle land radically altered her grandparents’ lives and the territories they helped develop. Autobiography of Cotton reveals a rich social history of agricultural colonization, labor activism, environmental degradation, and cross-border migration.

Book signing to follow.

Parallel Stories 
Parallel Stories is a literary and performing arts series that pairs art and artists with award-winning authors and performers of regional, national, and international acclaim. This series functions as a multidisciplinary lens through which to view the Museum's collection and featured exhibitions.