declaimed author alex espinoza is called fresh magical beautiful and evocative returns with a captivating unforgettable novel set in the hollywood golden age as a gifted and determine down and leaves mexico and everything he's ever known to follow his streams. growing up in a rural village at the height of the mexican revolution, is many first love sitting in dancing and hearing the stories everything is testers yeah but when tragedy strikes coming out of diego is sent to the city to live with his aristocratic grandparents who insists he groomed to take over the family business. under pressure to enter a profession for which he cares nothing am haunted by the violence once again erupting all around him, diego flees his war-torn country to forge his own destiny. diego arrives in the hollywood inmate team 27 when silent films

alex espinoza, h., when america assert to surpass the fame of his novel silent hollywood heroes. inoza takes our literature from a mute lacquered white area to a national stage with full spectrum color and high-tech surroundsound. even as we mourn the loss at diego's innocence, alex espinoza's david storytelling leaves us that those fragmented and multifaceted as identity itself. alex espinoza. [applause] >> thank you so much. it is such an honor to be here with everyone. mr. ishmael reed i have been a big fan of yours for as long time and i am just tumbled. my good friend, one delgadillo. he came to my community college years and years ago when i was a student and he read a poem where he described the freeway overpasses as looking like a snake eating itself. and i still remember that image. so i am very honored to be here with all of you. a tough act to follow. you are all making me teary-eyed when i'm sitting there. i first would like to thank the before columbus foundation justin thomas and the before columbus foundation for my second novel of an american book award. it's an ho