Book Launch: A Body Across Two Hemispheres by Victoria Buitron

135 Washington Street,Norwalk CT 06854

03 April, 2022

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Join Eco Evolution to celebrate Victoria Buitron's debut memoir “A Body Across Two Hemispheres.” Eco Evolution is thrilled to welcome Victoria Buitron to celebrate her debut memoir A Body Across Two Hemispheres in the town she calls home. The event will consist of a book reading, Q&A, and book signing. Light refreshments will be provided. Where: Eco Evolution, 135 Washington St, Norwalk, CT 06854 When: Sunday April 3, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. EST When Victoria Buitron turns fifteen, the life she knows and the place she calls home comes to an abrupt halt. Her paternal grandfather becomes ill, and her parents decide to become repatriates out of a sense of duty and love—leaving their cars, house, and jobs as a nanny and a garbage man in Connecticut for the coast of Ecuador with their children. In A Body Across Two Hemispheres, Victoria foregoes a chronological account of how this decision severs her family, and instead uses powerful essays and a structure based on location to narrate how she evolves from a brokenhearted teenage girl to a woman who finds her way home. "A Body Across Two Hemispheres is a timely book, one many of us need and will be grateful to have read. Never shying from what is difficult to reconcile, A Body Across Two Hemispheres introduces an utterly engaging, assured new voice in nonfiction. In her memoir-in-essays, Buitron lays bare various forms of grief but presents them with equal measures of resilience. She posits love—ultimately—as the curative for loss.” —Shara McCallum, 2021 Fairfield Book Prize Judge and author of No Ruined Stone and The Face of Water "With virtuosic descriptive skill and essays that span generations and hemispheres, Victoria Buitron has crafted a memoir that pushes the very limits of the medium, looking at what trauma writes in the story of a life–and the palimpsests that can be made after. Of family as a continuous act, a choice. Of love that defies state injustice and separation of time and place. These essays are groundbreaking, vital, revelatory." —Nick Olson, author of Here’s Waldo and The Brother We Share, Editor-in-Chief of (mac)ro(mic). Eco Evolution was the winner of their retail entrepreneur competition and launched an Eco Pop Up Shop for June and July, 2021. Based in Connecticut, Eco Evolution's products are good for people, good for the planet and curated with purpose! Shop for ecofriendly personal care products, locally made gifts and amazing coffee. It is not only a store with an ecological focus, but a meetup space to bring together and uplift the local community.