Wisconsin Book Festival 2007: Ana Castillo speaks

“The new novel by Ana Castillo, The Guardians, is set along the border between the U.S. and Mexico, and tells the story of a Mexican family whose members straddle it. Told in the voices of four central characters, the narrative traverses desert terrain populated by immigration agents, the coyotes who smuggle undocumented immigrants past the border patrols, gangbangers and other dangerous predators.

Castillo is a poet, essayist, playwright, novelist and recipient of the Carl Sandburg Prize, but is perhaps most familiar for her novel Peel My Love Like an Onion. A native of Chicago who now lives in New Mexico near its border with Mexico, Castillo appears at the 2007 Wisconsin Book Festival with the best-selling author and Pulitzer finalist Luis Alberto Urrea at noon Sunday, Oct. 14, in the Overture Center’s Promenade Hall.”

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