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SUMMARY:"The Waves Take You Home\," with author María Alejandra Barrios
  Vélez
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DESCRIPTION:Join the Prince George’s County Office of Human Rights 
 and the Prince George’s County Memorial Library System in conversat
 ion with author María Alejandra Barrios Vélez..\nhttps://pgcmls.libn
 et.info/event/10038622
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Launching March 19\, 2024\, "The Waves Tak
 e You Home" is a&nbsp\;heartfelt story about how the places we run from ho
 ld the answers to our deepest challenges\, the death of her grandmother br
 ings a young woman home\, where she must face the past in order to become 
 the heir of not just the family restaurant\, but her own destiny.</p>\n<p>
 Violeta Sanoguera had always done what she was told. She left the man she 
 loved in Colombia in pursuit of a better life for herself and because her 
 mother and grandmother didn&rsquo\;t approve of him. Chasing dreams of edu
 cation and art in New York City\, and with a new love\, twenty-eight-year-
 old Violeta establishes a new life for herself\, on her terms. But when he
 r grandmother suddenly dies\, everything changes.</p>\n<p>After years of b
 eing on her own in NYC\, Violeta finds herself on a plane back to Colombia
 \, accompanied at all times by the ghost of her grandmother who is sending
  her messages and signs\, to find she is the heir of the failing family re
 staurant\, the very one Abuela told her to run from in the first place. Th
 e journey leads her to rediscover her home\, her grandmother\, and even th
 e flame of an old love.</p>\n<p><img src="https://static.libnet.info/front
 end-images/editor/pgcmls/Barrios-TheWavesTakeYouHome.jpeg" width="720" hei
 ght="1130" alt="" style="display: block\; margin-left: auto\; margin-right
 : auto\;" /></p>\n<p>About the author:&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Mar&iacute\;a Alejan
 dra Barrios V&eacute\;lez&nbsp\;is a writer born in Barranquilla\, Colombi
 a. She has an MA in creative writing from the University of Manchester and
  lives in Brooklyn with her husband and scruffy dog\, Gus.</p>\n<p>She was
  the 2020 SmokeLong Flash Fiction Fellow\, and her stories have been publi
 shed in&nbsp\;Shenandoah Literary\,&nbsp\;Vol. 1 Brooklyn\,&nbsp\;El Malpe
 nsante\,&nbsp\;Fractured Lit\,&nbsp\;SmokeLong Quarterly\,&nbsp\;The Offin
 g\, and more. Her work has been supported by organizations such as Vermont
  Studio Center\, Kweli\, Caldera Arts\, and the New Orleans Writers&rsquo\
 ; Residency.</p>\n<p>The Waves Take You Home&nbsp\;is Mar&iacute\;a&rsquo\
 ;s debut\, inspired by the resilience and strength of the women in her fam
 ily and the Caribbean city she spent most of her life in.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p
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 ayer" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer\; autoplay\; clipboard-write\; 
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 een="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>\nhttps://pgcmls.libnet.info/event/1003
 8622
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