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Book Launch: Veronica Gonzalez Peña’s *Secret Daughter*
Thu 8:00 PM
2220 Arts + Archives, 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057, USA
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Semiotext(e) and the Poetic Research Bureau present a book launch for Veronica Gonzalez Peña's Secret Daughter, including a conversation with Chris Kraus. ∆ Exiled from her large extended family in Mexico City, the narrator of Secret Daughter was sent to the United States to live with an uncle’s family when she was six. Her family had hoped to protect the child from her mother’s acute mental illness. Slowly, she adapts to life in a small college town in the Midwest with her loving but weak uncle and his callous wife, but long summer trips back to her extended family in Mexico lead the girl to rightly believe that she is living two separate lives in two separate worlds. Adding to her disorie…