Ep. 150: Jennifer De Leon on the Power of Story to Build Empathy and Create Change

Today my guest is Jennifer De Leon, author of the new young adult novel Borderless. Caught in the cross hairs of gang violence, in Borderless a teen girl and her mother set off on a perilous journey from Guatemala City to the US border.

 

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“Grabbing and nicely-woven, this tale places a girl’s inspiring determination against a harsh reality and allows fate to pull both in unexpected ways.” – Bookworm for Kids

 

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About the Author:

Jennifer De Leon is an author, editor, speaker, and creative writing professor who lives outside of Boston. She is the editor of Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education, the 2015–2016 Writer-in-Residence at the Boston Public Library, and a 2016–2017 City of Boston Artist-in-Residence. She is also the second recipient of the We Need Diverse Books grant. She is the author of Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From and Borderless. Learn more: https://jenniferdeleonauthor.com/

 

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Happy Reading and Listening,

Laura Szaro Kopinski

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