Jon Pineda Book Signing and Talk
Join us at Prince Books at 3pm on Saturday, February 25th for an event with author Jon Pineda.
Jon Pineda's memoir, Sleep in Me, is now available in paperback. In addition to reading a selection from his memoir, Jon will discuss various writing exercises he used for both generating chapters and shaping the book manuscript.
Lyrical in its approach and unflinching in its honesty, Sleep in Me is a heartrending memoir of the coming-of-age of a boy haunted by a family tragedy. Against the backdrop of his teenage sister's car accident-in which a dump truck filled with sand slammed into the small car carrying her and her friends, Jon Pineda chronicles his sister Rica's sudden transformation from a vibrant high school cheerleader to a girl wheelchair bound and unable to talk. For the next five years of her life, her only ability to communicate was through her rudimentary use of sign language.
A prize-winning poet's account of the irreparable damage and the new understanding that tragedy brings to his Filipino American family, Pineda's book is a remarkable story maneuvering between childhood memories of his sister cheerleading and moments of monitoring her in a coma and changing her adult diapers. Pineda adeptly navigates between these moments of idyllic youth and heartbreaking sadness. Vivid and lyrical, his story is an exploration of what it means to live deeply with tragedy and of the impact such a story can have on a boy's journey to manhood.
Jon Pineda is the author of Sleep in Me, a Library Journal "Best Books of 2010" selection. His poetry collections include The Translator's Diary, winner of the Green Rose Prize, and Birthmark, winner of the Crab Orchard Award Series Open Competition. His third poetry manuscript was a finalist for the 2011 National Poetry Series, and his debut novel is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions. He teaches creative nonfiction and poetry in the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte.
If you are unable to attend and would like a signed copy, please call to make payment arrangements or order here through our website.
- Street:
- 109 E. Main Street
- City:
- Norfolk ,
- Province:
- Virginia
- Postal Code:
- 23510-1613
- Country:
- United States
