CPL Presents: Valeria Luiselli (Main/Virtual) In-Person / Online
Join the Cambridge Public Library in celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month by welcoming Valeria Luiselli—the acclaimed author of several books, including Tell Me How It Ends and Lost Children Archive, the recipient of the 2021 Dublin Literary Award—for a reading from her new novel, Beginning Middle End.
In Beginning Middle End, which received starred reviews from Publisher's Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and Booklist, Luiselli returns to the road novel form which she innovated in Lost Children Archive. Called "a beautiful, maybe perfect, novel," Beginning Middle End follows a mother and daughter on a quest to start over and find for themselves a new story, in the process weaving "together four generations of women through archaeology, mythology, and the natural world" (W Magazine).
After reading from her work, Luiselli will sit in conversation with Eloisa Amezcua, an award-winning poet, translator, and author of Fighting Is Like a Wife. An audience Q&A and book signing will follow.
- Date:
- Thursday, September 24, 2026
- Time:
- 6:00pm - 7:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Lecture Hall
- Branches:
- Main Library
- Audience:
- Adult
- Categories:
- Author Event City Event Feature
Valeria Luiselli is an acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction. She is the author of the essay collection Sidewalks; the novels Faces in the Crowd and The Story of My Teeth; Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions; and the international bestseller Lost Children Archive. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the winner of two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, an American Book Award, the Rathbones Folio Prize, and the 2021 Dublin Literary Award, Luiselli's work has been translated into more than thirty languages. She teaches at Harvard University and Bard College.
Eloisa Amezcua is from Arizona. She is the author of Fighting Is Like a Wife, published by Coffee House Press (2022), and From the Inside Quietly (2018), inaugural winner of the Shelterbelt Poetry Prize selected by Ada Limón. A MacDowell fellow, Amezcua's poems and translations are published in the New York Times Magazine, Poetry Magazine, Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. She serves on the faculty of Randolph College's MFA program.
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This event is cosponsored by the Cambridge Public Library Foundation.