Malas: Author Marcela Fuentes in conversation with Rachel Wright

Join the Georgia Center for the Book for an evening with debut author Marcela Fuentes. Her novel Malas is a multigenerational saga following the story of one family living on the Texas-Mexico border. Alternating between the 1950s and 1990s, Malas is a vibrant portrait of two fierce women, separated by decades, but both determined to thwart fate and escape the confines of their lives. She’ll be in conversation with Atlanta writer Rachel Wright. Registration requested. Charis Book and More will be our bookseller for the evening, and you may preorder the book from them here.

This event will be in the Decatur Library Auditorium. Please enter through the Ground Floor, rear doors. Doors and elevators open at 6:30.

About the Book:

Marcela Fuentes’s debut novel, Malas, is a multigenerational saga following the story of one family living on the Texas-Mexico border. Alternating between the 1950s and 1990s, Malas is a vibrant portrait of two fierce women, separated by decades, but both determined to thwart fate and escape the confines of their lives. On the Texas-Mexico border in 1951, Pilar Aguierre is pregnant with her second child when an old woman accuses her of stealing her husband and lays a curse on Pilar’s family. Although assured by her friends and family that this woman’s words hold no weight, Pilar is unconvinced, and senses tragedy looming. Fast forward to 1996, Lulu Muñoz is dodging chaos at every turn: her troubled father’s moods, his rules, her secret life as a singer in a punk band, but most of all her upcoming quinceañera. When her beloved grandmother passes away, Lulu finds herself drawn to the glamorous stranger who crashed the funeral and who lives alone and shunned on the edge of town. Their unexpected kinship picks at the secrets of Lulu’s family’s past. As the quinceañera looms—and we move between these two strong, irascible female voices—one woman must make peace with the past, and one girl pushes to embrace her future.