Tucson Festival of Books

Writing Roots in Tucson


What do stories about religion and class conflict in rural America, expats, natives and tourists in Mexico, and the heartfelt desire to help abandoned children continents away, have in common? All of these amazing books were written by three authors who have called Tucson home.


Panelists
Karen Brennan

Karen Brennan is the author of nine books, including," Television, a Memoir," a hybrid collection of micro-prose and flash pieces and the poetry collections "The Real Enough World" "Wild Desire" and the memoir, "Being with Rachel....

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Elhadj Ndoye

Elhadj Ndoye was born and raised in Senegal, West Africa. In 1995, he removed himself from his own people, language and country to pursue his education in the United States.  Elhadj has more than twenty years of successful banking experience in Tucson, and is a University of Arizona alumnus....

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Jamie Quatro

Jamie Quatro's new novel is "Two-Step Devil," named an Editor's Choice in the New York Times Book Review. She is the New York Times Notable author of "I Want to Show You More," a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award and the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize, and "Fire Sermon," a Book of the Year for the Economist, San Francisco Chronicle, LitHub, Bloomberg, and the Times Literary Supplement....

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Books:
Rabbit in the Moon: The Mexico Stories
Karen Brennan
Fiction / Literature
SCHAFFNER Press
May 2024
ISBN 9781639640454
179 pages
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Dream On, Seydou
A Memoir of A Senegalese Immigrant
Elhadj Ndoye
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
TFC Publications
September 2024
ISBN 9798218463496
The author will make this book available for sale at the Indie Author Pavilion during the Festival.

Two-step Devil
Jamie Quatro
Fiction / Literature
Grove Press
September 2024
ISBN 9780802163134
288 pages