November 16, 2023 from 10-11 a.m. | Goodyear Council Cambers
Award-winning Irish Latina author, Stella Pope Duarte, will speak about her historical novel, Let Their Spirits Dance, a passionate story of a family’s spiritual cross-country trip to the Vietnam Memorial Wall. With this year marking the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, she’ll offer her reflections on what it meant to research and write her book, which is built upon numerous interviews of veterans from the U.S. and Vietnamese soldiers who served with U.S. forces.
Hailed by critics as a “major, literary voice in America,” Duarte is described by reviewers as a “magical weaver with a sure hand and a pure heart,” and as an author who “will enlarge humanity.” Her literary works have won awards and honors nationwide, including a 2009 American Book Award, a Pulitzer Prize nomination, Southwest Book of the Year Award, Women in American History Award, and a nomination for ONE BOOK AZ.
This is a FREE event.
