Hosted By: Austin Public Library Join us in Austin Central Library's Special Event Center for a conversation with David Wright Faladé and Alejandro Puyana as part of the Library's National Day of Racial Healing events.

The event will celebrate the publication of Wright Faladé's latest novel, The New Internationals, a stunning historical novel set in a post-WWII Paris filled with possibility that interweaves a coming-of-age story, a cross-cultural romance, and a portrait of the international youth at a definitive moment in contemporary history.

He will be joined in conversation by Alejandro Puyana, discussing his debut, Freedom is a Feast, a multigenerational, Latin American saga of love and revolution in which a rebel who commits a youthful betrayal receives a late-life chance at redemption and a new life.

Both novels draw inspiration from the authors' family histories. Wright Faladé and Puyana will discuss how they transformed these stories into imaginative, ambitious works of fiction.