We Are Green and Trembling: Gabriela Cabezón Cámara

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Based on a real figure of the Spanish conquest, International Booker shortlisted Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s new novel We Are Green and Trembling is a masterful subversion of Latin American history and a “sensuous and searing…queer anticolonial picaresque” (Publishers Weekly). Deep in the wilds of the New World, Antonio de Erauso begins to write a letter to his aunt, the prioress of the Basque convent he escaped as a young girl. Since fleeing a dead-end life as a nun, he’s become Antonio and undertaken monumental adventures: he has been a cabin boy, mule driver, shopkeeper, soldier, and conquistador. Now, caring for two Guaraní girls he rescued from enslavement and hounded by the army he deserted, this protean protagonist contemplates one more metamorphosis. In conversation with Achy Obejas. FREE, $10-15 suggested donation

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