The Writer’s Center welcomes writer Herminia Gil Guerrero for a reading from her new publication, Lo Que No Te Pertence. This reading will be followed by a Q&A and signing.
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Herminia Gil Guerrero is a Spanish writer and scholar. She holds a PhD on the work of Jorge Luis Borges from the University of Hamburg and is a professor of language and literature at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. She has lived for more than twenty-five years across countries and languages—an experience shaped by displacement and a perspective from the margins that permeates her writing. She is the author of the short story collection Stories from Silicon Valley. What Does Not Belong to You is her first novel.
About Lo Que No Te Pertence
When the first children begin arriving alone and terrified at a detention center on the U.S.–Mexico border, three lives become irreversibly entwined.
Silvia, a Spanish journalist living in Washington, D.C., balances single motherhood with her work as a correspondent. When she travels to Texas to cover the separation of migrant families during Donald Trump’s presidency, the professional distance that once protected her begins to fracture in the pages of her diary.
Roy, a veteran Border Patrol agent, is assigned to care for the newly arrived children. Haunted by a violent episode from his past, he struggles to reconcile his duty with the growing weight of his conscience.
Manuela, a young girl from Guatemala, is forced to leave her home and embark on a journey north in search of a place where she can belong.
Set between Washington, Texas, and Central America, What Does Not Belong to You is a powerful novel about geographic, emotional, and moral borders—and about the limits of narrating another’s suffering without becoming trapped in it.
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