LOCAL>> Achy Obejas and Carolina de Robertis – Boomerang & The President and the Frog

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Oct 30 2021

LOCAL>> Achy Obejas and Carolina de Robertis – Boomerang & The President and the Frog

Latina authors talk about their new works: bilingual poetry, a novel rooted in the fantastic

Boomerang/Bumerán by Achy Obejas is a unique and inspiriting bilingual collection of lyrical poetry written in a bold, mostly gender-free English and Spanish that address immigration, displacement, love and activism.

Achy Obejas is the author of The Tower of the Antilles, which was nominated for a PEN/Faulkner award, among other honors.

As engrossing as it is innovative, vivid, moving, and full of wit and humor, The President and the Frog explores the resilience of the human spirit and what is possible when danger looms.

A writer of Uruguayan origins, Carolina De Robertis is the author of the novels The President and the Frog; Cantoras, winner of a Stonewall Book Award and a Reading Women Award, a finalist for the Kirkus Prize and a Lambda Literary Award, and a New York Times Editors’ Choice.