National Medal of the Arts recipient Julia Alvarez presents as part of a virtual UCI Great Big Read event on August 6. This conversational forum with the revered author of prize-winning books such as How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies will engage participants, and a live Q&A session is included. Alvarez' latest novel, Afterlife, is the current UCI Great Big Read selection.

Facilitated by Anita Casavantes Bradford, Chicano/Latino Studies, UCI

Register online: https://uciadvance.wufoo.com/forms/mhqe4i20lcpze0/