Tucson Festival of Books

Conscience and Consequence


How does fiction confront the moral weight of history? And what responsibilities do writers bear in retelling it? In this panel, our authors will explore the intersections of empire, revolution and redemption, revealing how the echoes of the past shape identity, justice and truth in the present.


Panelists
Álvaro Enrigue

Álvaro Enrigue is a prize-winning Mexican writer whose most recently released novel is “Now I Surrender." He is also the author of “You Dreamed of Empires.” His work has appeared in The New York Times, The London Review of Books, El País, and n+1, among other publications....

Nathan Harris

Nathan Harris is the author of the New York Times bestseller "The Sweetness of Water," an Oprah’s Book Club pick. It was the winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and longlisted for the Booker Prize, the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize....

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Books:
Now I Surrender
A Novel
Álvaro Enrigue
Nuestras Raices
Penguin Group
March 2026
ISBN 9780593084076
464 pages
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Amity
A Novel
Nathan Harris
Fiction / Literature
Little Brown
September 2025
ISBN 9780316456241
320 pages
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