One Book One City: Author Talk - Flying Free by Cecilia Aragon

Author Cecilia Aragon will inspire you to face your own fears and whatever holds you back, challenging you to achieve your goals.

Flying in from Seattle, where author, pilot, scientist, and professor Cecilia Aragon teaches in the College of Engineering at the University of Washington, the Sierra Madre Public Library is excited to have her tell her story of courage and perseverance while encouraging you to reach for the sky.

In Cecilia Aragon's book, Flying Free: My Victory over Fear to Become the First Latina Pilot on the US Aerobatic Team, she shares her journey of breaking past her fears to become a champion aerobatic pilot. Aragon was a timid child, painfully shy and afraid of everything from heights to people. How did she become a death-defying daredevil and aerobatic pilot? In her memoir she bares her life even though writing it “scared me more than pointing my single-seat experimental plane at the ground and opening the throttle until I was roaring earthward at 250 mph”.

Light refreshments will be served and copies of the Sierra Madre Public Library's 2023 One Book One City selection Flying Free: My Victory over Fear to Become the First Latina Pilot on the US Aerobatic Team by Cecilia Aragon will be available for purchase.

We hope you will join us for a thrilling evening of high flying inspiration!

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