About this Event
Format:
- This event is free and open to the public.
- Location: The 2nd floor of BookPeople.
- Run time: 45-60 minute discussion, followed by a signing line.
Signing Guidelines:
- To get a book signed, a copy of the event book or an item of equal value must be purchased from BookPeople.
- The author will be personalizing copies of the book.
- For high volume events, post-talk signing lines can become very long. Signing line placement is determined on a first-come, first-served basis.
General Info:
- Seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis and is not guaranteed.
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- BookPeople reserves the right to cancel or postpone this event if necessary.
- There will not be a live stream or recording available.
- All event guidelines are subject to change.
About the book:
A sweeping family saga set in Texas and the Philippines, following two sisters unearthing their mother's long-buried secrets.
In the 1960s, on the island of Mindoro in the Philippines, the future of Corazon de la Cruz’s family rests with her. She’ll be the first to go to college, to immigrate to the United States, and to support her family back home by becoming a doctor. She can’t remember whether this dream was ever her own, or if she even has a say in it. But after a fire mysteriously breaks out on the de la Cruzes’ land, the family splinters, and Corazon is faced with a fateful choice.
Decades later, Corazon’s death has shaken the family to its very core. Her daughters, Hannah and Mari, are estranged from their roots in the Philippines when a distant cousin urges the sisters to return to settle unresolved business. Together for the first time in years, the sisters find that the future of their family’s ancestral land is now in their hands, and it’s about to slip away. As they fight to protect their inheritance, they uncover long-buried secrets hidden from them by their beloved matriarch—about her life, their homeland, and themselves.
A lush family saga and a love letter to the Philippines, Between You a River follows two generations of de la Cruzes as they confront the sacrifices made by mothers so their daughters can lead different lives, leaving them to wrestle with the lifelong push and pull of home.
About the author:
Kimberly Garza is the author of the critically acclaimed novel The Last Karankawas, a New York Times Editors’ Choice and an Indie Next pick. Her stories and essays have appeared in Electric Literature, Texas Highways, Copper Nickel, and elsewhere, and she was a 2024 National Endowment of the Arts creative writing fellow. A native Texan—born in Galveston, raised in Uvalde—she teaches literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where she directs the creative writing program.
About the moderator:
Carrie R. Moore is the author of Make Your Way Home, a short story collection exploring Black love and longing in the American South. Her writing has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, Oprah Daily, The Sewanee Review, American Short Fiction, One Story, and other publications. She earned her MFA in Fiction at The Michener Center for Writers, where she won the Keene Prize for Literature and was the inaugural fellow at the Steinbeck Writers’ Retreat.
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