Word Up welcomes award-winning author Jaquira Díaz to celebrate the launch of This Is the Only Kingdom, an epic debut novel of a mother and daughter wrestling with the aftermath of a murder, set against the backdrop of a tightknit, working-class barrio in Puerto Rico. In conversation with Dìaz will be writer and translator of Puerto Rican literature Carina del Valle Schorske.

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