Patricia Coral — Women Surrounded by Water - with Susan Coll
November 7, 2024
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as posted by the channelWatch author Patricia Coral's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.
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Growing up in Puerto Rico, Patricia Coral was surrounded by women who fought for their needs amid the demands of domesticity and who were dismissed and judged when they rejected any predetermined paths on an island that itself has never been free. At age twenty-five, she married her first love, a green-eyed musician whose internal storms drove Coral to slowly realize that the marriage must end. Faced with disillusionment--with her husband, with the patriarchal expectations that surrounded her like the Caribbean Sea, and with the limited options available to her--she leaves, only for Hurricane Maria to wrench her heart homeward.
Coral evokes the beauty, love, and language of her family and of Puerto Rico as well as the pain of yearning for more. Tastes, colors, and the dreamlike lushness of childhood memories infuse this mournful and propulsive memoir of personal and natural disasters--and the self-discovery made possible only when we choose what to leave behind.
Patricia Coral is a bilingual Puerto Rican writer. She holds an MFA in creative writing from American University, where she received the Myra Sklarew Award and where she was Editor in Chief of FOLIO. Coral writes creative nonfiction and poetry, but frequently her words find their home in between. The former events director for Politics and Prose Bookstore, she has contributed to numerous literary magazines.
Coral is in conversation with Susan Coll, author of Real Life and Other Fictions, Bookish People, The Stager—a New York Times and Chicago Tribune Editor’s Choice---and Acceptance, which was made into a television movie starring Joan Cusack. Her work has appeared in publications including the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post, Washingtonian Magazine, Moment Magazine, NPR.org, and Atlantic.com. She is currently the president of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and the events advisor at Politics and Prose Bookstore, where she has worked for seven years. Newsday has called Coll the “Queen of Literary Comedy.”
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