Lauren Markham - author of Two Young Migrants and the Making of an America Life
Time: C Block (1:05 pm to 2:20 pm)
Location: Founders Lecture Hall
Student Liaisons: Cait Jenkyn and Lily Leone
Location: Founders Lecture Hall
Student Liaisons: Cait Jenkyn and Lily Leone
Join us for a conversation with Lauren Markham, a writer and reporter based in Northern California and the author of The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life, which tells the story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador’s violence to build new lives in California—fighting to survive, to stay, and to belong. The Far Away Brothers is the winner of the 2018 Ridenhour Book Prize, the Northern California Book Award, and a California Book Award Silver Prize. It was also named a Barnes & Noble Discover Selection, a New York Times Book Critics' Top Book of 2017, and was shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and the L.A. Times Book Award and longlisted for a Pen America Literary Award in Biography.