Funeral for Flaca: The Book Tour - SOCORRO, TX

10167 Socorro Rd,Socorro TX 79927

11 September, 2021

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You're invited to the FUNERAL FOR FLACA Western U.S. book tour celebrating Emilly Prado's debut essay collection. Meet authors Emilly Prado and Gris Muñoz at this conversation and book signing hosted by Casa Ortiz. Books available for purchase. Masks required. You can learn more about Funeral for Flaca here and see all tour dates here. You can learn more about Coatlicue Girl here. About the Writers Emilly G. Prado is a writer, DJ, and educator living in Portland, Oregon with roots in the San Francisco Bay Area and Michoacán, Mexico. As an award-winning multimedia journalist, Emilly spent half a decade independently reporting on a wide range of topics, most often centered on amplifying the voices and experiences of people from historically marginalized communities. Her writing and photographs have been published hundreds of times, appearing in 30 publications including NPR, Marie Claire, Bitch Media, Eater, The Oregonian, Portland Monthly, The Stranger, Remezcla, and Travel Oregon. Emilly is the author of Funeral for Flaca, a memoir-in-essays called, “Utterly vulnerable, bold, and unique,” by Ms. Magazine, and Examining Assimilation, a youth non-fiction title at the intersections of identity and society. She is a Tin House and Las Dos Brujas Workshop alumna, Blackburn Fellow and MFA Candidate at Randolph College, and a co-founder of Portland in Color. She also moonlights as DJ Mami Miami with Noche Libre, the Latinx DJ collective she co-founded in 2017. Learn more at www.emillyprado.com or social media @emillygprado. Gris Muñoz is a frontera poet and storyteller. She is the author of the bilingual poetry and short-story collection, Coatlicue Girl, most recently named a finalist for the John A. Robertson Award for Best First Book of Poetry by the Texas Institute of Letters. Her work has been highlighted by The Rumpus, Bitch Media and The Smithsonian Latino Center among others and she has most recently been featured by The Texas Book Festival, The Tamarindo Podcast, and the Latino Collection & Resource Center at San Antonio Public Library in collaboration with Texas Public Radio. She is also the co-founder of the digital map and storytelling project, GeoTestimonios Transfronterizxs, which aims to record the experiences of women living on the El Paso/Juarez border. Gris is currently commissioned to write the biography of acclaimed LA artist Fabian Debora. She is Xicana of Apache descent. “Utterly vulnerable, bold, and unique” —Ms. Magazine This memoir-in-essays spans Emilly Prado's life and shares her experience of what it was like to grow up a first-and-half-generation Chicana in white places. It's about the difficulties of coming of age and into adulthood, navigating trauma, and finding healing. More Praise for FUNERAL FOR FLACA “I felt these essays deep in my heart. Funeral for Flaca by Emilly Prado is like a Chicana punk rock ballad in prose. Soulful and brave, these essays of Prado’s life made me feel less lonely, less outcasted, and more seen—and isn’t that why we come to books in the first place?” —Kali Fajardo-Anstine, author of Sabrina & Corina “Emilly Prado’s Funeral for Flaca is a piece-by-piece collection of essays that forge a radical new form of storytelling. Part music and lyric, part coming of age Chicana memoir, part punk fuck you to cultural inscription and erasure. The thing about the traumatized body is that sometimes someone speaks back, and the story will shatter the walls. The book is a resuscitation of the self. This book is a love song.” —Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Chronology of Water and Verge “This book is brilliant. It tells the unique stories of what it means to grow up Latina in the U.S. and the universal experiences of love, coming of age and finding your own voice and self. Prado weaves personal stories that make you laugh, cry and give you hope for the future.” —Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez, author and co-editor of Presente! “Once I started reading Funeral for Flaca, I could not stop. The series of essays traverses Prado’s life and weaves a narrative that is gripping and beautifully told. Each essay is a finely crafted tribute to periods in Prado’s labyrinthine path, intersecting trauma, pathology, loss and, ultimately, perseverance and healing.” —Lisa Congdon, artist and author of Find Your Artistic Voice “Funeral for Flaca is a trip. Emilly Prado smacks traditional memoirs in the face with this evocative collection of essays. Tackling anorexia, a tumultuous father-daughter relationship, and all the snap-crackle-pop of dark humor, Funeral for Flaca has everything your hood emo heart has ever wanted. Read it and give it as a gift to your goth baby cousin.” —Gabby Rivera, author of Juliet Takes a Breath “Funeral for Flaca isn't just stories—it's also a mixtape, delivering beautifully-rendered stories to a soundtrack. The book shares experiences that anyone who's been a kid could recognize.” — “State of Wonder” on Oregon Public Broadcasting "I felt invited to join Emilly Prado on her journey. Reading Funeral for Flaca felt like music feels when you are intoxicated; I found myself picking this book up even when I thought I was done reading for the day. I felt engulfed in her world. I understood her stories in a very intimate way that only others who share a similar journey to your own can reflect. It is a beautiful book, told phenomenally." —Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez, Latina Rebels founder and author of For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to WOC