Jazmine Ulloa, a New York Times reporter who grew up in El Paso and graduated from Burges High School, will return home in March to discuss her new book about the city.
Ulloa’s book,“El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory,” is being published March 3.
El Paso Matters and the El Paso Community Foundation are presenting a conversation with Ulloa at 7 p.m. Monday, March 9, at the Philanthropy Theatre inside the Plaza Theatre in Downtown El Paso. El Paso Matters CEO Robert Moore will talk with Ulloa about what led her to write the book, and why El Paso is so important to the nation’s story.
Admission is free. Literarity Book Shop will sell the book at the venue, and Ulloa will be available to sign copies after the talk.
Ulloa’s book has drawn pre-publication praise from a number of leading authors.
“What if El Paso was accorded the same place in American history as Ellis Island?
This brilliantly told book makes a persuasive claim that El Paso belongs in the center of the American narrative,” Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright said.
“El Paso is the magical and tragic crossroads at the center of North America. And in
Jazmine Ulloa’s beautiful and impactful storytelling, we see it evolve from a frontier town
to a fraught urban center, its streets and alleys the setting of epic historical encounters
and culture-defining social movements,” said Héctor Tobar, author of “Deep Down Dark” and “Our Migrant Souls.” “At last, that great border city in the desert has the book it deserves.”
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