Award-winning author, Angie Cruz, in conversation with TTN-NYC’s Professor Harriet Shenkman
Calling all TTN chapter Book Groups.
Join us to hear the prize-winning author, Angie Cruz, in conversation with TTN-NYC’s Harriet Shenkman.
Whether you choose to read Cruz’s acclaimed How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water (2022) or her prizing-winning Dominicana (2019), before or after this talk, you’ll be inspired, intrigued and stimulated by this remarkable author.
Read one of Cruz’s books; then join us to meet and query the author.
Or do the opposite: join us to meet and query the author; then read one of Cruz’s books.
Angie Cruz will read from her work and discuss how the creative process can engage at any stage of life.
She has said that great stories demand we look again – and again - at the things we take for granted and think critically about the world at large.
Cruz’s numerous books focus on themes of home, gender, race, displacement, and generational trauma.
Her most recent novel, How Not to Drown in A Glass of Water
(2022), was a New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2022. "A poignant portrait of one fallible, wise woman and a corner of one of New York’s most vibrant immigrant communities." Kirkus
Here’s a link to the NY Times' Review:
A Reading Group Guide is also available.
Cruz’s novel, Dominicana, inspired by her mother's arrival story, was the inaugural book pick for GMA book club and shortlisted for The Women’s Prize, longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction, The Aspen Words Literary Prize, a RUSA Notable book and the winner of the ALA/YALSA Alex Award in fiction.
It was named most anticipated/best book in 2019 by Time, Newsweek, People, Oprah Magazine, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Esquire.
Structurally inventive and emotionally authentic, Dominicana describes the struggle of many women living in our city. Publishers Weekly described the work as "Enthralling...Cruz's winning novel will linger in the reader’s mind long after the close of the story." NBC described Dominicana as "one of
the most evocative and empowering immigrant stories of our time."
A Reading Group Guide is also available.
Read one of her books, meet the author.
Angie Cruz is the author of the novels How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water, Soledad, Let It Rain Coffee, and Dominicana, which was shortlisted for the Women's Prize and a Good Morning America Book Club pick. She is founder and editor in chief of Aster(ix), a literary and arts journal, and is an associate professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh.
Harriet Shenkman earned a Ph.D. from Fordham University. She is a Professor Emerita at City University of New York. Her poetry awards include the Women’s National Book Association 2013 Annual Writing Contest in Poetry and the Women Who Write 2013 International Poetry and Short Prose Contest. Her poetry appeared in Union, the Raynes Poetry Competition Anthology, Evening Street Review, Third Wednesday, Jewish Currents, Jewish Magazine, Westchester Review. Oyez Review, The Alexandria Quarterly, Comstock Review, The Berru Poetry Series, and two poetry chapbooks published by Finishing Line Press, Teetering and The Present Abandoned. She has completed a novel, The Camel Tamer, which she hopes to see published. The Clinic, a short story based on her novel, appears in Jewish Fiction.net.