A Message from Stephanie Elizondo Griest:Just wanted to invite you to the San Antonio launching of my latest book:MEXICAN ENOUGH: MY LIFE BETWEEN THE BORDERLINES.
Tuesday, August 19 - SAN ANTONIO, TX-- Stephanie will perform at Borders Bookstore at 7 p.m. at 255 E. BasseRoad Suite 350. It would be amazing to see you there! (More Texas gigs are pasted at the endof this email.)
Mil gracias for your support.Best wishes,
Stephanie Elizondo Griest
www.MexicanEnough.comMEXICAN ENOUGH: MY LIFE BETWEEN THE BORDERLINESWashington Square Press, August 2008
Growing up in a half-white, half-brown town and family in South Texas,Stephanie Elizondo Griest struggled with her cultural identity. Upon turningthirty, she ventured to her mother's native Mexico to do a littleroot-searching and improve her "Tarzan Lite" Spanish. She stumbled upon aburgeoning social movement that shook parts of the nation to its core.
MEXICAN ENOUGH chronicles her journey, from the narco-infested border townof Nuevo Laredo to the highlands of Chiapas. She investigates the murder ofa prominent gay activist, sneaks into prison to meet with resistancefighters, rallies with rebels in Oaxaca, and interviews scores of migrantworkers and the families they were forced to leave behind. Travel companionsinclude a Polish thief, a Border Patrol agent, and a Dominatrix. Partmemoir, part journalistic reportage, MEXICAN ENOUGH illuminates how we castoff our identity in our youth, only to strive to find it again as adults --and the lessons to be learned along the way.
MEXICAN ENOUGH is the August pick of the National Latino Book Club,sponsored by Borders Bookstore, the Association of American Publishers, andLas Comadres. Check out the first chapter in the August edition of TexasMonthly Magazine:
http://www.texasmonthly.com/2008-08-01/griest.phpABOUT THE AUTHOR: STEPHANIE ELIZONDO GRIEST
Stephanie Elizondo Griest has mingled with the Russian Mafiya, polishedChinese propaganda, and belly danced with Cuban rumba queens. Theseadventures inspired her award-winning memoir AROUND THE BLOC: MY LIFE INMOSCOW, BEIJING, AND HAVANA (Villard/Random House, 2004) and guidebook 100PLACES EVERY WOMAN SHOULD GO (Travelers Tales, 2007). She has explored fivecontinents and once drove 45,000 miles across America in a Honda Hatchbacknamed Bertha. A 2005-2006 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University, sherecently won the Richard J. Margolis Award for Social Justice Reporting.Visit her website at
www.MexicanEnough.com.
MAS TEXAS GIGS
Sunday, August 17 - ALLEN, TX-- Stephanie will perform from "Mexican Enough" at the Grand Opening of thenew Borders Bookstore at 2 p.m located at 965 West Bethany Drive.
Tuesday, August 19 - SAN ANTONIO, TX-- Stephanie will perform at Borders Bookstore at 7 p.m. at 255 E. BasseRoad Suite 350.
Wednesday, August 20 - HOUSTON, TX-- Stephanie will perform at Borders Bookstore at 7 p.m. at 3025 KirbyStreet.
Sunday, August 24 - CORPUS CHRISTI, TX-- Stephanie will officially launch "Mexican Enough" at her hometown Barnesand Noble in Moore Plaza at 2 p.m.
Tuesday, September 9 - AUSTIN, TX-- Stephanie will perform at Book People on 603 North Lamar Blvd at 7 p.m.
Saturday, September 13 - CORPUS CHRISTI, TX-- Stephanie will perform at the Instituto de Cultura Hispanica at theInstituto Museum at Heritage Park at 10:30 a.m.
Monday, September 15 - KINGSVILLE, TX-- Stephanie will kick off Hispanic Heritage Month with a performance atTexas ATM Kingsville. Details TBA.
Thursday, September 18 - Sunday, September 21 - HOUSTON, TX-- Stephanie will do a number of events as part of the Latino Book & FamilyFestival and Nuestra Palabra. Details TBA.
Tuesday, September 23 - BROWNSVILLE, TX-- Stephanie will present her work at the University of Texas atBrownsville, as part of Latino Heritage Month. Details TBA.
