The French writer Guy de Maupassant once wrote: “Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.” The memoirist gives life to those who no longer exist by using language to conjure the dead into existence on the page. Cristina Rivera Garza, author of Liliana's Invincible Summer, and Peter Godwin, author of Exit Wounds, will be in conversation about their recent memoirs and the writer's impulse to write about grief. What is the motivation behind making what is often such a private experience public? We will also move beyond grief to place, and the ways in which writing has allowed both of these writers — Rivera Garza, a native of Mexico living in Texas, and Godwin, a native of Zimbabwe, living in New York — to preserve their relationship to the politically fraught places they have called home.
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