{"id":198771,"date":"2026-03-10T20:39:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T20:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/198771\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T20:39:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T20:39:17","slug":"photos-book-talk-with-el-paso-native-jazmine-ulloa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/198771\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Book Talk with El Paso native Jazmine Ulloa"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a full house for El Paso native Jazmine Ulloa\u2019s return home Monday, presenting her recently released book to an audience of about 200 at the Philanthropy Theatre in Downtown.<\/p>\n

Now a national reporter for the New York Times, Ulloa talked about her book, \u201cEl Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory,\u201d as part of a Book Talk event by El Paso Matters and El Paso Community Foundation. El Paso Matters CEO Robert Moore moderated the discussion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cEl Paso,\u201d published earlier this month by Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House, traces more than a century of border history through the lives of five families, weaving together immigration, politics and the shared story of El Paso and neighboring Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez.\u00a0<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Jazmine Ulloa\u2019s new book puts El Paso at center of U.S. immigration story<\/a><\/p>\n

Ulloa has described the project as an effort to capture \u201cthe complicated, layered story of a border community that has often been misunderstood from the outside.\u201d<\/p>\n

In reading a passage from the book Monday, Ulloa described El Paso as \u201ca palace of rugged beauty, where from up above as you fly in, the sun reflects off glistening pools and rivulets, where after the blistering heat breaks, before the city lights glimmer, the brownness of the desert is cloaked in gold.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the discussion, Ulloa took questions from the audience for about 30 minutes and then participated in a book signing.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a nonprofit newsroom, creating space for conversations like this is central to our mission,\u201d said Alyshea Johnson, development and events director at El Paso Matters. \u201cWhat stood out wasn\u2019t just the size of the crowd, but how El Paso showed up excited, energized and ready to engage deeply with the stories of our region. It was a room full of neighbors ready to be part of the conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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