The Santa Monica Public Library presents acclaimed novelist Cristina Garcia, who will be reading from her new novel, “Monkey Hunting,” and discussing her life as a writer at the Fairview Branch Library.
Cristina Garcia was born in Havana and grew up in New York City. Her first novel, “Dreaming in Cuban,” a story of three generations of women torn apart by the Fidel Castro-led revolution, was nominated for a National Book Award. Garcia has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University, and the recipient of a Whiting Writers’Award. She recently edited and wrote the introduction to “A Cubanesimo!,” an anthology celebrating contemporary Cuban literature.
In “Monkey Hunting,” her first novel in six years, Garcia writes a lyrical tale about an extended Chinese-Cuban family, encompassing five generations, four countries and two turbulent centuries.
All ages are welcome to attend the lecture, which begins at 7:30 p.m. The library is located at 2101 Ocean Park Blvd. For more information about this free “Teen Read Week” event, call (310) 458-8600.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on October 10, 2003. Read the original PDF.