\u201cEl Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory,\u201d<\/a> is being published March 3.\u00a0<\/p>\nEl 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\u2019s story.<\/p>\n
Admission is free. Literarity Book Shop will sell the book at the venue, and Ulloa will be available to sign copies after the talk.<\/p>\n
Ulloa\u2019s book has drawn pre-publication praise from a number of leading authors.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat if El Paso was accorded the same place in American history as Ellis Island?<\/p>\n
This brilliantly told book makes a persuasive claim that El Paso belongs in the center of the American narrative,\u201d Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright said.<\/p>\n
\u201cEl Paso is the magical and tragic crossroads at the center of North America. And in<\/p>\n
Jazmine Ulloa\u2019s beautiful and impactful storytelling, we see it evolve from a frontier town<\/p>\n
to a fraught urban center, its streets and alleys the setting of epic historical encounters<\/p>\n
and culture-defining social movements,\u201d said H\u00e9ctor Tobar, author of \u201cDeep Down Dark\u201d and \u201cOur Migrant Souls.\u201d \u201cAt last, that great border city in the desert has the book it deserves.\u201d<\/p>\n
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