Book Talk with Jasminne Mendez author of The Story of My Anger

Name: Book Talk with Jasminne Mendez author of The Story of My Anger
Start: 2025-10-02T19:00:00-05:00
Location: 5501 N Lamar Blvd, Ste A105, Austin, TX, United States, Texas 78751

Schedule

Thu, 02 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

5501 N Lamar Blvd, Ste A105, Austin, TX, United States, Texas 78751 | Austin, TX

Please join us on Thursday, October 2 at 7pm as we welcome back Houston author Jasminne Mendez for her debut YA novel, The Story of My Anger.
The Pura Belpré Honor Award winning author of Aniana del Mar Jumps In makes her YA debut with a powerful novel-in-verse about a Texas teen who is battling racism in her theatre program and book banning efforts by her town’s school board.
Yulieta Lopez, a Dominican Texas teen tired of racism and censorship, starts a guerrilla theatre club with her friends as she finds her voice and the courage to stand up for what she believes in.
★ "A powerful love letter to finding and using your voice, this story will resonate deeply with those who struggle to feel seen and nurtured, particularly young women of color... A compelling drama with a firecracker protagonist that stuns with its strikingly beautiful writing." --Kirkus, starred review
Jasminne Mendez is Pura Belpré Honor Award recipient and a Dominican-American poet, playwright and author of several books for children and adults. She is also a poet, playwright, translator, and professional audiobook narrator. Her most recent publication Aniana del Mar Jumps In (Dial), a novel in verse about a young girl diagnosed with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis, received starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal and others. Her YA memoir, Islands Apart: Becoming Dominican American (Arte Público Press) and her debut poetry collection, City Without Altar (Noemi Press), were recently recognized with honors and awards by the Texas Institute of Letters and her debut picture book Josefina's Habichuelas (Arte Público Press) was the 2022 Writer's League of Texas Children's Book Discovery Prize Winner. She has translated Amanda Gorman's best-selling picture books Change Sings ( La canción del cambio) and Something, Someday (Algo, algún día), the best selling picture book The 1619 Project: Born on the Water (El proyecto 1619: Nacieron sobre el agua) by Nikole Hannah Jones and Reneé Watson and the Pura Belpré Award Winning graphic novel Frizzy ( Rizos) by Claribel Ortega.