Book Reading and Signing by Dorotea Reyna, Author of Los Cedros: A Tejana Memoir

Please join Medicine for Nightmares for a book signing and reading by Dorotea Reyna, author of the newly released book Los Cedros: A Tejana Memoir.

Chicana writer Dorotea Reyna returns to visit her beloved childhood home in South Texas situated on the Rio Grande River on the U.S.-Mexico border. To her astonishment, she discovers that her father's village is now being monitored by a surveillance balloon, and her mother's village is now framed by the Wall. Alarmed by these changes, she writes this memoir which takes her readers back to a far more peaceful time on the border when she was a girl growing up the in the 60s.

In colorful vignettes which blend both facts and fiction, she recreates the spirit of the unforgettable men and women who helped shape her as a child including her pueblo's activist priest, the kindly woman who took care of her when her…