Nasario Garcia Celebrates Book Launch At Teatro Paraguas

It takes all kinds to populate Northern New Mexico, and this book has every one: from gypsies and gamblers to ranchers and criminals. Noted author Nasario García introduces us to some of these people and the challenges they face. The title character, Adelfa, flirts with the glamour of casinos and finds herself addicted to gambling. Sam "Spam" Austin, an inmate serving a long sentence for murder, is paroled, attends medical school, and becomes a doctor. The affable grandfather in "Yo Quiero Hacer un Lie 'Way," a hardworking and honorable rancher, stuns the proprietor of a mortuary with his request to put a coffin on layaway.

No More Bingo, Comadre! was just published by the University of New Mexico Press this month.

A native New Mexican, Nasario García was born in Bernalillo, but grew up in Ojo del Padre (Guadalupe), New Mexico in the Río Puerco valley southeast of Chaco Canyon. Considered a leading folklorist in New Mexico, he has published over 26 books in Spanish and English, 10 of which relate to folklore and oral history. Dr. García has worked tirelessly for over thirty years to preserve the Hispanic culture and language of northern New Mexico.

This project made possible in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, the National Endowment for the Arts, Santa Fe Arts Commission and the 1% Lodger's Tax, and the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry.

WHAT: No More Bingo, Comadre! reading from a book by Nasario Garcia

WHEN: September 9, 2018 at 6:00pm

WHERE : Teatro Paraguas, 3205 Calle Marie, Santa Fe

ADMISSION: free

Reservations: 505-577-2679

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