A virtual workshop with the author of Monstrilio, Gerardo Sámano Córdova, to benefit Community Building Art Works on Saturday, March 23rd, 2024 at 12 PM Eastern Time.
Click here to register on our Eventbrite.
*Recording will only contain workshop lessons. All other participant video will be edited for user privacy. Only registered participants will have access to the recorded workshop.
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Stay connected with Gerardo: Twitter: @samanito | Instagram: @hello.samanito
“Gerardo Sámano Córdova’s dark, soulful magic puts me in mind of Kelly Link or Carmen Maria Machado (and further back, Mary Shelley). The horror of grief has rarely been so viscerally or movingly evoked.” –Peter Ho Davies, author of A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself
“An extraordinary act of imagination, an extended meditation that begins in grief, family, belonging, and moves past that, into a deeper discovery of the power of love–and the powerlessness of love, as well its strangeness. With Monstrilio, Sámano Córdova makes a remarkable, kaleidoscopic debut.” –Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
“Monstrilio is the monster story about grief I’ve been craving. Bloody and full of longing, it gets under your skin and doesn’t let you go. A thrilling and heartbreaking ride from Mexico City to NYC to Berlin, brilliantly capturing what it means to lose someone you love with ferocious tenderness. Gerardo Sámano Córdova is an international revelation and one of the boldest new voices writing today.” –Akil Kumarasamy, author of Meet Us by the Roaring Sea and Half Gods
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