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February 20, 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

In Person: An Evening with Armando Lucas Correa & Mirta Ojito

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Date:
February 20, 2024
Time:
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Venue

Books & Books in Coral Gables
265 Aragon Ave
Coral Gables, FL 33134
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Phone:
305.442.4408

Books & Books presents…

AN EVENING WITH ARMANDO LUCAS CORREA

in conversation with

Mirta Ojito

discussing

The Silence in Her Eyes: A Novel

(Atria Books, $27.99)

Tuesday, February 20th, 7:00 PM | Books & Books, Coral Gables

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Books & Books is thrilled to present an evening with Armando Lucas Correa & Mirta Ojito for his thrilling book: The Silence in Her Eyes: A Novel (Atria Books, $27.99).

This event is FREE and open to the public and books will be available for purchase the night of the event! Please RSVP only if you intend to join us.

Make sure to stay after the discussion for a chance to get your book signed by the author!


About the Book:

In the vein of Paula Hawkins and Ruth Ware, a bold and suspenseful psychological thriller about a young woman with a rare neurological condition who is convinced her neighbor is going to be murdered.

Leah has been living with akinetopsia, or motion blindness, since she was a child. For the last twenty years, she hasn’t been able to see movement. As she walks around her upper Manhattan neighborhood with her white stick tapping in front, most people assume she’s blind. But the truth is Leah sees a good deal, and with her acute senses of smell and hearing, very little escapes her notice.

She has a quiet, orderly life, with little human contact beyond her longtime housekeeper, her doctor, and her elderly neighbor. That all changes when Alice moves into the apartment next door and Leah can immediately smell the anxiety wafting off her. Worse, Leah can’t help but hear Alice and a late-night visitor engage in a violent fight. Worried, she befriends her neighbor and discovers that Alice is in the middle of a messy divorce from an abusive husband.

Then one night, Leah wakes up to someone in her apartment. She blacks out and in the morning is left wondering if she dreamt the episode. And yet the scent of the intruder follows her everywhere. And when she hears Alice through the wall pleading for her help, Leah makes a decision that will test her courage, her strength, and ultimately her sanity.

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About the Author:

Armando Lucas Correa is an award-winning journalist, editor, author, and the recipient of several awards from the National Association of Hispanic Publications and the Society of Professional Journalism. He is the author of the international bestseller The German Girl, which is now being published in seventeen languages and has sold more than one million copies; The Sister’s Tale; and The Night Traveler, for which he was awarded the Cintas Foundation Creative Writing Fellowship. He lives in New York City with his husband and their three children. Visit ArmandoLucasCorrea.com.

About the Moderator:

Mirta Ojito was born in Havana, Cuba, and came to the United States in 1980 in the Mariel boatlift. She has received the American Society of Newspaper Editors’ Award for best foreign reporting, and she shared the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting, for her contribution to the series “How Race Is Lived in America.” Her work has appeared in several anthologies, including Written into History: Pulitzer Prize Reporting of the Twentieth Century from The New York Times, edited by Anthony Lewis. Ojito has taught journalism at New York University, Columbia University, and the University of Miami. She writes for The New York Times from Miami.


Books & Books se complace en presentar una noche con Armando Lucas Correa y Mirta Ojito por su libro: El silencio en sus ojos / The Silence in Her Eyes (Vintage Espanol, $19.95).

 Las entradas son GRATUITAS y los libros estarán a la venta durante el evento. ¿No puedes venir? Pida su libro aquí.

Después de la charla, no se pierda la oportunidad de conseguir su libro firmado por el autor!

Sobre el libro:

Al estilo de Paula Hawkins y Ruth Ware, una intrigante novela de suspense psicológico acerca de una joven con una rara condición neurológica que está convencida de que su vecina va a ser asesinada

Leah ha vivido con akinetopsia, o ceguera al movimiento, desde que era niña. Durante los últimos veinte años, no ha podido percibir el movimiento. Mientras pasea por su vecindario en Upper Manhattan con su bastón blanco guiando el camino, la mayoría de la gente asume que es ciega. Pero la verdad es que Leah ve mucho, y con sus agudos sentidos del olfato y la audición, muy poco escapa a su atención.

Lleva una vida tranquila y ordenada, con poco contacto humano más allá de su ama de llaves de toda la vida, su psicólogo y su anciana vecina. Todo eso cambia cuando Alice se muda al apartamento de al lado y Leah puede oler de inmediato la ansiedad que emana de ella. Lo que es peor, Leah no puede evitar escuchar a Alice y a un visitante nocturno involucrarse en una violenta discusión. Preocupada, entabla amistad con su vecina y descubre que Alice está en medio de un complicado divorcio de un esposo abusivo.

Luego, una noche, Leah se despierta con alguien en su apartamento. Pierde el conocimiento y por la mañana se pregunta si soñó el episodio. Sin embargo, el aroma del intruso la sigue a todas partes. Y cuando escucha a Alice al otro lado de la pared suplicando su ayuda, Leah toma una decisión que pondrá a prueba su valentía, su fuerza y, en última instancia, su cordura.

Sobre el autor:

Armando Lucas Correa es un escritor, editor y periodista galardonado que ha recibido numerosos premios de la National Association of Hispanic Publications y de la Society of Professional Journalism. Es el autor de La viajera nocturna, La hija olvidada y del bestsellerinternacional La niña alemana, que ha sido publicado en 17 idiomas. Vive en Nueva York con su pareja y sus tres hijos. Visita ArmandoLucasCorrea.com

Sobre la moderadora:

Mirta Ojito nació en La Habana, Cuba, y llegó a Estados Unidos en 1980 en el éxodo del Mariel. Ha recibido el Premio de la Sociedad Americana de Editores de Periódicos al mejor reportaje extranjero, y compartió el Premio Pulitzer 2000 de reportaje nacional, por su contribución a la serie “How Race Is Lived in America”. Su trabajo ha aparecido en varias antologías, entre ellas Written into History: Pulitzer Prize Reporting of the Twentieth Century from The New York Times, editado por Anthony Lewis. Ojito ha enseñado periodismo en la New York University, Columbia University, and the University of Miami. Escribe para The New York Times desde Miami.