East Los Book Festival | Main Stage with Elio Morillo, Naibe Reynoso and Viet Thanh Nguyen

Viet Thanh Nguyen and Elio Morillo will be headlining the Main Stage at noon on Saturday, September 13. You won’t want to miss this conversation… and a chance to pick up a copy of their latest work!

📌Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was turned into an HBO limited series. The recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations, his most recent books are A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial; To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other; and the edited volume The Cleaving: Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora.

📍Elio Morillo, the engineer known as the “space mechanic” speaks to both our future and past in his breathless memoir of his journey from Ecuador to NASA and beyond. His debut memoir, The Boy Who Reached for the Stars, inspired a Pixar animated film.