680 Park Avenue
New York
6 to 8 pm
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YPA Book Talk: Brenda Navarro and Megan McDowell
In a YPA event, the award-winning Mexican author, and her translator, will discuss her book, Eating Ashes, soon to be a major motion picture.
6 to 8 pm
680 Park Avenue
New York
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Overview
Join Young Professionals of the Americas for a book talk with Brenda Navarro and Megan McDowell, the writer and translator of Eating Ashes. In conversation with YPA's Chase Harrison, Navarro and McDowell will discus the novel, which features an unnamed narrator, alone and adrift in Barcelona, who becomes consumed by her younger brother’s death back home in Mexico. Through the book, Navarro confronts the ruptures of immigration, class, and family, asking what remains of us when we leave home, and what parts of home never leave us. The book is being made into a major motion picture, starring Diego Luna, set for a fall 2026 release.
After a conversation and Q&A, attendees will be invited to a drinks reception.
Email ypa@as-coa.org to register.
Bios
Brenda Navarro is a Mexican writer, sociologist, and economist. She researches and writes about women's labour, women's access to culture, digital rights and humanities, and migration.
Megan McDowell has translated many of the most important Latin American writers working today. Her translations have won the National Book Award for Translated Literature, the English PEN award, the Premio Valle-Inclán, and two O. Henry Prizes, and have been nominated for the International Booker Prize (four times) and the Kirkus Prize. Her short story translations have been featured in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Times Magazine, Tin House, McSweeney’s, and Granta, among others. In 2020 she won an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is from Richmond, KY and lives in Santiago, Chile.
Chase Harrison is the editorial manager of AS/COA Online, where he writes about politics and economics across Latin America. He is also a novelist, theater critic, and award-winning comedian.
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