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SUMMARY:Jennifer De Leon on "White Space"
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DESCRIPTION:Walter Dean Myers grant winner Jennifer De Leon discusses her 
 collection of essays\, "White Space." The collection explores her experien
 ces as a Guatemalan-American woman existing in two cultures..\nhttps://pgc
 mls.libnet.info/event/5514673
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 rong>About White Space</strong></p>\n<p>Sometime in her twenties\, Jennife
 r De Leon asked herself\, &ldquo\;What would you do if you just gave yours
 elf permission?&rdquo\; While her parents had fled Guatemala over three de
 cades earlier when the country was in the grips of genocide and civil war\
 , she hadn&rsquo\;t been back since she was a child. She gave herself perm
 ission to return&mdash\;to relearn the Spanish that she had forgotten\, un
 pack her family&rsquo\;s history\, and begin to make her own way.</p>\n<p>
 Alternately honest\, funny\, and visceral\, this powerful collection follo
 ws De Leon as she comes of age as a Guatemalan-American woman and learns t
 o navigate the space between two worlds. Never rich or white enough for he
 r posh college\, she finds herself equally adrift in her first weeks in he
 r parents&rsquo\; home country. During the years to follow\, she would ret
 urn to Guatemala again and again\, meet ex-guerrillera and genocide surviv
 ors\, get married in the old cobblestoned capital of Antigua\, and teach h
 er newborn son about his roots.</p>\n<p><strong>About Jennifer De Leon</st
 rong></p>\n<p>Jennifer De Leon&nbsp\;is the author of&nbsp\;Don&rsquo\;t A
 sk Me Where I&rsquo\;m From&nbsp\;(Atheneum/Simon &amp\; Schuster\, 2020) 
 and the editor of&nbsp\;Wise Latinas&nbsp\;(University of Nebraska Press\,
  2014). An Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Framingham State Uni
 versity\, and a faculty member in the MFA in Creative Nonfiction program a
 t Bay Path University\, she has published prose in over a dozen literary j
 ournals and is a GrubStreet instructor and board member. Her essay collect
 ion\,&nbsp\;White Space: Essays on Culture\, Race\, &amp\; Writing\, is th
 e recipient of the Juniper Prize and will be published by UMass Press in S
 pring 2021.</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\nhttps://pgcmls.libnet.info/event/5514673
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