7:00 pm

Americas Society
680 Park Avenue
New York

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I Lived on Butterfly Hill, by Marjorie Agosín

Chilean author and human-rights activist Marjorie Agosín will join Lori Marie Carlson and Fran Colleti for a discussion on Agosín's young adult novel.

7:00 pm

Americas Society
680 Park Avenue
New York

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Overview

Online registration for tonight’s program is closed. Members may arrive prior to the event and pick up their tickets, and non-members may pay at the door. Email jnegroni@as-coa.org for questions.

Chilean author and human-rights activist Marjorie Agosín will be joined by author, editor, and translator Lori Marie Carlson (A Stitch in Air) and Fran Colleti, of Facing History and Ourselves, to discuss Agosín’s young adult novel, which received starred reviews in Booklist and Publishers Weekly. The participants will also discuss young adult publishing today. Based on true events in Chile following the 1973 military coup there, I Lived on Butterfly Hill, sensitively translated by Eileen M. O’Connor, is an imaginative tour-de-force. In the author’s tale, the whole world of her protagonist, Celeste, is turned upside down as warships begin arriving in her beautiful harbor of Valparaíso and she is torn from everything she knows and loves. Co-presented with Atheneum Books for Young Readers.

“Agosín … writes of [a life of exile] with beauty and grace, telling a compelling tale that both enchants and haunts.” —Jeanne Fredriksen on I Lived on Butterfly Hill (Booklist starred review).

Watch a video of Marjorie Agosín speaking at UMass Boston (2011):