Please join us for a reading from Mario Duarte's latest book, My Father Called Us Monkeys.

His book is inspired by his experiences as a Mexican American boy growing up in a primarily white community in the Midwest during the 1960s. The book is made up of short stories and memoirs closely tied to the author’s own life, and provides an interesting perspective: the perspective of a child coming of age in a time of great change in the world as a whole, and on a smaller level, in a neighborhood where not many people look like them.