9th Ave: Writers for Migrant Justice Fundraiser

Wednesday, September 4, 2019 - 7:30pm

This event will be held at our 9th Ave. location.

In connection with Bay Area Writers Resist and the national "Writers for Migrant Justice" fundraising events to support the work of Immigrant Families Together (IFT), we're hosting a reading with Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Julia Delgado Lupera, Maw Shein Win, Chris Feliciano Arnold, and Tongo Eisen-Martin. 20% of our sales from the night will be donated directly to Immigrant Families Together. If you cannot attend, but wish to donate you can donate directly here.

Immigrant Families Together (IFT) was founded in June 2018 in response to the immigration policy separating families at the U.S./Mexico border. They pay bonds for parents in detention and work to reunite them with their children. Additionally, they support over 100 reunited families as they recover from their detention trauma and adjust to life in the U.S. while their asylum cases are adjudicated. All of the IFT volunteers are working pro-bono. Thus, ALL of your funds will go directly to rapid response needs. The New York Times article "How Regular Americans Can Help Reunite Migrant Families " says more about the impact of IFT and why we love them.

 

Fruit of the Drunken Tree By Ingrid Rojas Contreras Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780525434313
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Published: Anchor - June 4th, 2019

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Seven-year-old Chula lives a carefree life in her gated community in Bogotá, but the threat of kidnappings, car bombs, and assassinations hover just outside her walls, where the godlike drug lord Pablo Escobar reigns, capturing the attention of the nation.


Cenzontle By Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Brenda Shaughnessy (Foreword by) Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9781942683537
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Published: BOA Editions - April 10th, 2018

A lyrical debut exploring the emotional fallout of immigration, childbirth, queer desire within a heteronormative marriage, and, ultimately, belonging.


¡Cuentamelo! By Julían Delgado Lopera (Editor) Cover Image
$17.95
ISBN: 9781879960947
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(This book cannot be returned nor exchanged.)
Published: Aunt Lute Books - December 1st, 2017

Published in a bilingual English and Spanish edition. Winner of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBTQ Anthology. 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Winner for LGBT Nonfiction. CU NTAMELO began as a cover story for SF Weekly, and, eventually in 2014 with local grant support, Lopera was able to self publish. The first edition of 300 books sold out within a week.


Invisible Gifts: Poems By Maw Shein Win Cover Image
$14.95
Temporarily Unavailable
ISBN: 9781945665080
Published: Manic D Press - May 1st, 2018

In her first full-length collection of poems, Win depicts a colorful world imbued with unexpected paradoxes: nature is both comforting and savagely unnerving; love is permanent and fleeting; the accuracy and flaws of memory abound.


The Third Bank of the River: Power and Survival in the Twenty-First-Century Amazon By Chris Feliciano Arnold Cover Image
$21.00
ISBN: 9781250098931
Availability: NOT on our shelves now. Usually ships from warehouse in several days.
(This book cannot be returned nor exchanged.)
Published: Picador - September 3rd, 2019

A sweeping look at the war over the Amazon—as activists,locals, and indigenous tribes struggle to save it from the threat of loggers, drug lords, and corrupt cops and politicians


Heaven Is All Goodbyes: Pocket Poets No. 61 (City Lights Pocket Poets #61) By Tongo Eisen-Martin Cover Image
$15.95
ISBN: 9780872867451
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Published: City Lights Books - September 26th, 2017

Shortlisted for the 2018 Griffin International Poetry Prize

2018 American Book Award Winner

2018 PEN Oakland Award Winner

Winner of the 2018 California Book Award for Poetry

2018 NCIBA Poetry Book of the Year


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