The 2012 Get Lit! Festival presents fiction writers Jason Skipper and Cristina Garcia, who will be reading at Riverpoint Campus Phase I building on Saturday, April 14at 11:00 a.m.
Jason Skipper has worked as a bartender, musician, and freelance journalist. All of these past experiences come into play in his debut novel
Hustle. The novel features a young musician with big dreams through his adolescence, his philandering seafood selling father, and his alcoholic grandfather. The story follows them as they make a new future for themselves and try to figure out the present. It also explores what we owe each other and the sacrifices we make to feel free. Author John Dufresne recommends that you find a comfy chair before reading because once you start you won't want to stop.
Cristina Garcia has written five novels all detailing some aspect of Latin American life. She has been acclaimed for writing colorful characters in an equally colorful landscape. Her most recent novel,
The Lady Matador's Hotel, uses her ability and takes place in an unspecified Central American country starring an international cast of characters, including a Cuban poet and his American wife, a Korean manufacturer, and Japanese-Mexican-American matadora. Garcia's recent young-adult novel has similar themes about how people connect and form bands.
Dreams of Significant Girls follows three different girls during their summers in Switzerland and how they maintain a close friendship despite their differences.
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