Tucson Festival of Books

Read It, Feel It


If you've read books by Lisa Genova or Luis Alberto Urrea, you know your heart was an important part of the experience. Their empathy becomes ours. We don't just read their words, we feel them, and today we will hear them in a one-hour chat with two of our favorite authors.


Panelists
Lisa Genova

Best-known for her stunning debut novel, "Still Alice," Lisa Genova returns to Tucson with "More or Less Maddy," a story about a young woman struggling with bipolar disorder.. The holder of a Ph.D....

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Luis Alberto Urrea

Luis Alberto Urrea has never missed a Tucson Festival of Books, and will make it 16-for-16 this Spring. Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and an American mother, Urrea draws on his bi-cultural experiences to explore themes of love, loss and triumph....

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Books:
More or Less Maddy
A Novel
Lisa Genova
Fiction / Literature
Gallery/Scout Press
January 2025
ISBN 9781668026168
368 pages
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Good Night, Irene
A Novel
Luis Alberto Urrea
Fiction / Literature
Little Brown
June 2024
ISBN 9780316265959
432 pages
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