Tucson Festival of Books

Love, Loss, and Second Chances


Join authors Crystal Hana Kim, Nanda Reddy, and Marcela Fuentes as they discuss the complexities of familial relationships, the impact of loss and resilience, and the ways in which people find second chances in life.


Panelists
Marcela Fuentes

Marcela Fuentes is a Pushcart Prize-winning fiction writer and essayist. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was the 2016-2017 James C. McCreight Fiction Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing....

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Crystal Hana Kim

Crystal Hana Kim is the author of the critically acclaimed novels "The Stone Home," a current finalist for the Maya Angelou Book Award, and "If You Leave Me," which was named a best book of 2018 by over a dozen publications....

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Nanda Reddy

Nanda Reddy is a Guyanese American writer and former elementary school teacher. She immigrated to the U.S. with her family when she was nine years old and grew up in Miami, Florida. She loves visiting off-the-grid places, hiking, and painting with watercolors....

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Books:
Malas
A Novel
Marcela Fuentes
Nuestras Raices
Penguin Publishing Group
June 2024
ISBN 9780593655788
384 pages
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The Stone Home
A Novel
Crystal Hana Kim
Fiction / Literature
HarperCollins Publishers
April 2024
ISBN 9780063310971
352 pages
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A Girl Within a Girl Within a Girl
A Novel
Nanda Reddy
Fiction / Literature
Zibby Books
March 2025
ISBN 9798989532513
384 pages
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