An Evening with Esmeralda Santiago, Author of Las Madres, a Hispanic Heritage Month Program

Meet award-winning author Esmeralda Santiago, who will discuss her book Las Madres, a powerful novel about family, race, faith, sex, and disaster that moves between Puerto Rico and the Bronx, revealing the lives and loves of five women and the secret that binds them.

Book sale and signing by Elm Street Books.

Registration required.

Esmeralda Santiago is the author of the novel Conquistadora and the memoirs When I was Puerto Rican and Almost A Woman, which was adapted into a Peabody Award–winning movie for PBS’s Masterpiece Theatre. Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, she lives with her husband, documentary filmmaker Frank Cantor, in New York, and Port Clyde, Maine.