Lorraine Berry

The author, whose work was recently the subject of a book-burning by students at Georgia Southern University, will speak about the immigrant experience in the United States during Miami Book Fair 2019.

The Miami-born author's new book is the latest entry in his series following journalist-turned-detective Pete Fernandez.

Through episodes of sexual assault and depression and years of self-destructive behavior, it is the "ordinary girls" who provide the solidarity and support that memoir author Jaquira Díaz lacks at home.

Elwood Curtis watches the news coming out of Florida from his adopted home of New York City. As articles in Tampa Bay, Miami, and even international newspapers are reporting that dozens of skeletons are being unearthed on the grounds of a boys’ ostensible “reform” school, Curtis remembers. He is one of the "Nickel Boys," those who survived inhumane conditions and continued their route to an adulthood haunted by harrowing memories.