Knox County Public Library invites the public to join Claudia Caballero, Executive Director of Centro Hispano de East Tennessee, for a discussion of The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life by Lauren Markham at noon on Wednesday, March 28  in the East Tennessee History Center auditorium.

Attendees are welcome to bring their lunch. Drinks will be available for fifty cents. Reading the book is optional.
 
“I thought I knew the immigration story from the inside, because I hear so much at work," Caballero said. "This book took me to a different, more compassionate place.” 
Markham's subject in The Far Away Brothers is the struggle of identical twins Ernesto and Raul to escape El Salvador's violence and build new lives in California. Under mortal threat by the MS-13 gang in rural El Salvador after the civil war, the twins fled for their lives in 2013. They met the author as students at Oakland International High School where she worked. Dozens of other students also told her their stories of how and why they came to the United States as unaccompanied, undocumented minors.

Caballero was born in the western mountains of Honduras and earned a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the Catholic University of Honduras. She spent most of her early childhood and teen life moving between Honduras and the United States. Now that she has made Tennessee her home, she has dedicated her time to finding and opening opportunities for immigrants in her community to become thriving, healthy, prosperous individuals.
 

Upcoming Books Sandwiched In Schedule:

April 25: Dr. Nick Geidner, The University of Tennessee, will discuss Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future by Joi Ito.

May 23: Umoja Abdul-Ahad, Zero Waste Neighborhoods/Project 2000, Inc., will discuss Muslims and the Making of America by Amir Hussain.

June 27: Dr. Matt Harris, The University of Tennessee, will discuss A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System by T. R. Reid.

Books Sandwiched In is made possible through the generous support of the Friends of the Library. Learn more at www.KnoxLib.org.