The Gustavus Adolphus College Reading-in-Common program, St. Peter Reads, and Friends of the St. Peter Public Library have scheduled several events for Sept. 22-29 at the College and in the community of St. Peter in association with this year’s reading-in-common book, Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario.
The schedule of events is as follows:
• Tuesday, Sept. 22: Book discussion facilitated by Gustavus Academic Librarian Barbara Fister. 6:30 p.m. at the St. Peter Food Co-op;
• Wednesday, Sept. 23: Latin American cuisine class with Sonia Ramirez. 6 p.m. at the St. Peter Food Co-op;
• Saturday, Sept. 26: Screening of the movie Sin Nombre. 2 p.m. at the Treaty Site History Center. (Movie rated R in Spanish with English sub-titles);
• Monday, Sept. 28: Meet the author and book signing. 3-4 p.m. at the St. Peter Public Library;
• Monday, Sept. 28: Public lecture by Sonia Nazario. 7 p.m. in Gustavus’ Alumni Hall, located in the O.J. Johnson Student Union;
• Tuesday, Sept. 29: Panel discussion on immigration and related issues. 7 p.m. in room 300 at the St. Peter Community Center.
Nazario has spent 20 years reporting and writing about social issues, most recently as a projects reporter for the Los Angeles Times. In 2003, Nazario won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for her work on the multi-part newspaper series Enrique’s Journey. In 1998 she was a finalist for the Pulitzer prize in Feature Writing for her story about children of drug addicts in Los Angeles. Nazario also won a George Polk Award for Local Reporting for a series about hunger among school children in California.
Nazario expanded on her newspaper series and published the book in 2005. The story details how a Honduran boy, by clinging to the tops and sides of freight trains, made the long, dangerous, and illegal journey through Mexico into the United States to find his mother who had left him at the age of five.
For more information about these events, contact Judy Schultz in the Gustavus Adolphus College Book Mark at 507-933-6017.
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