Tucson Festival of Books

Where Do I Belong?


Belonging can go beyond DNA. Explore identity through a lens of family ties and bonds, and examine unconventional ideas of connection that bind us together.


Panelists
Freda Epum

Freda Epum is a Nigerian American writer and artist. She is the author of "The Gloomy Girl Variety Show," and two chapbooks, "Input/Output" and "Entryways into memories that might assemble me," which won the Iron Horse Literary Review Chapbook competition....

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David Martinez

Arizonan David Martinez comes to the festival with "Bones Worth Breaking," a critically-acclaimed memoir detailing the unbreakable bond between brothers and a reckoning with the global forces that shaped them....

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Oliver Radclyffe

Oliver Radclyffe’s new memoir is "Frighten the Horses." He is part of the new wave of transgender writers unafraid to address the complex nuances of transition, examining the places where gender identity, sexual orientation, feminist allegiance, social class and family history overlap....

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Books:
The Gloomy Girl Variety Show
A Memoir of Ailments, Apartments, and African (American) Womanhood
Freda Epum
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
Feminist Press
January 2025
ISBN 9781558613102
224 pages
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Bones Worth Breaking
A Memoir
David Martinez
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
April 2024
ISBN 9780374610951
400 pages
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Frighten the Horses
Oliver Radclyffe
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
Grove Atlantic
September 2024
ISBN 9780802163158
352 pages
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