Event Detail

Alejandro Heredia, in conversation with Myriam Gurba, discusses "Loca"

Monday, February 17, 2025 at 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Vroman's Bookstore

For more information call: 626-449-5320

Or click here: https://vromansbookstore.com/event/2025-02-17/alejandro-heredia-conversation-myriam-gurba-discusses-loca

If Junot Diaz’s critically acclaimed collection Drown and Janet Mock’s Emmy-winning series Pose produced offspring, Alejandro Heredia’s "Loca" would be their firstborn... It’s 1999, and best friends Sal and Charo are striving to hold on to their dreams in a New York determined to grind them down. Sal is a book-loving science nerd trying to grow beyond his dead-end job in a new city, but he’s held back by tragic memories from his past in Santo Domingo. Free-spirited Charo is surprised to find herself a mother at twenty-five, partnered with a controlling man, working at the same supermarket for years, her world shrunk to the very domesticity she thought she’d escaped in her old country. When Sal finds love at a gay club one night, both his and Charo’s worlds unexpectedly open up to a vibrant social circle that pushes them to reckon with what they owe to their own selves, pasts, futures, and, always, each other.