literature, poetry & music

Entre Letras, Palabras y Cantos
Felicia Luna Lemus presenting Like Son

Friday, 10/12, 8pm

The National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W. 19th Street, Chicago, IL

Admission: $8, students and senior: $7, members: $6

Join us as some of Chicago's local Mexicana poets take the
stage and bring the art of spoken word, while opening for
acclaimed author Felicia Luna Lemus. Local poets include:
Stephanie Gentry-Fernandez, Yolanda Cardenas, Magda Banda
and the music of Luna Blues Machine.

The National Museum of Mexican Art is proud to welcome the
return of acclaimed Mexican American author Felicia Luna
Lemus. In her latest novel, Like Son, Felicia introduces us to
Frank Cruz: a post-punk, sardonic, thirty-year-old who unwittingly inherits his dead father's legacy. Born a bouncing
baby girl named Francisca to parents tangled in a doomed
love affair, Frank grows up in both the poorest barrios and
poshest hills of Southern California. On his deathbed, Frank's
father gives him a mysterious crumbling photograph of a
women with a stunning gaze: Nahui Olin, a fierce member of
the early-20th-Century Mexican avant-garde who once brought
tragedy upon the Cruz family.

This event is a collaboration with Proyecto Latina, a collaborative
between the women of Teatro Luna, Tianguis Bookstore, and
Mariposa Atomica Ink.