Jean Guerrero: Crux - A Cross-Border Memoir
Jean Guerrero, Fronteras reporter for KPBS, will be at The Book Catapult on Wednesday, July 25 at 7:30pm to discuss and sign her new book, "Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir."
Acclaimed journalist Jean Guerrero’s "Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir" is a beautiful and haunting narrative about a daughter’s quest to understand her charismatic, troubled, and elusive father, a self-mythologizing Mexican immigrant who travels across continents - and across the borders between imagination and reality; and spirituality and insanity - fleeing real and invented persecutors. Guerrero magically conjures the complex relationships that define families and legacy, but also offers a timely and complex exploration of immigration and borders through a family history that crosses back and forth between Mexico and the United States.
Jean Guerrero is the winner of the PEN/FUSION Emerging Writers Prize and is the Fronteras reporter for KPBS, the NPR and PBS affiliate in San Diego, reporting on cross-border issues for radio and TV. She has also worked for the Wall Street Journal, won several prestigious reporting awards, and has an MFA from Goucher College.