• Karla Cornejo Villavicencio on Identity, Belonging, and the Power of Stories

  • Nov 26 2024
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Karla Cornejo Villavicencio on Identity, Belonging, and the Power of Stories

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  • In this episode, we sit down with Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, author of The Undocumented Americans and Catalina, which was longlisted for the 2024 National Book Awards. Cornejo Villavicencio opens up about her experience with meeting readers for the first time and how the unpredictability of the publishing world has shaped her perspective. She also discusses the process of recording Catalina’s audiobook and how it led to her connecting with the novel in a deeper, more personal way.

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    About Karla: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio is an Ecuadorian-American writer and the author of The Undocumented Americans and Catalina. Catalina was longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction. Her work, which focuses on race, culture, and immigration, has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vogue, Elle, Interview, and on NPR.

    Get Karla's books:

    • Catalina
    • The Undocumented Americans

    Books discussed on today’s episode:

    • Model Home by Rivers Solomon
    • Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
    • The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi
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