Tue
Mar 27 2018
11:37 am
By: eellis
What: Books Sandwiched In is Tomorrow!
When: Wednesday, March 28, 2018 - 12:00pm
Where: East Tennessee History Center, 601 South Gay Street
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
Bring your lunch or pick up something downtown. Drinks are 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.”
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