Your question. Jacquira diaz is with us today courtesy of several members. Ms. Diaz was born in puerto rico her work has been published in rolling stones, the guardian, long reads. The New York Times out magazine. And included in the best american essays 2016. The recipient of two prizes and the elizabeth and George Foundation George Foundation grant and fellowship from the mcdowell colony. And the Wisconsin Institute for creative writing. She lives in miami beach with her partner please give a warm savanna welcome to jacquira diaz. Thank you so much. I am so happy to be here and its wonderful to see all of you book lovers here. And thank you savanna for your southern hospitality. I also want to thank the savanna book festival and everyone who made this event possible lets give it up to the indie booksellers in the room. I love you all. Thank you for all that you do for loving books and championing writers. Because of you im here. Thank you. I want to open with a just the just a little
[inaudible conversations] good afternoon fellow book lovers. Im happy to welcome you to the 13th annual savanna book festival. Presented by Georgia Power david and nancy cintron. We are especially grateful to jack in mary romanus our sponsors for this beautiful venue. We would also like to welcome our members and individual earners today. It is through your support that we are able to make festival events this saturday free to the public. 90 of our revenue comes from our donors and members and we thank you. Before we get started i have some housekeeping notes. Miss diaz will be signing festival copy purchases. If you are planning to stay for the next author Michelle Sullivan after this presentation please move forward to fill seats as the venue empties. This will help the ushers get them for the next session. Please turn off your cell phones so they dont disrupt the cell phones. Later, as you exit the venue you will see the volunteers in the back with buckets. They would be happy to ac
She lives in miami beach with her partner please give a warm savanna welcome to jacquira diaz. Thank you so much. I am so happy to be here and its wonderful to see all of you book lovers here. And thank you savanna for your southern hospitality. I also want to thank the savanna book festival and everyone who made this event possible lets give it up to the indie booksellers in the room. I love you all. Thank you for all that you do for loving books and championing writers. Because of you im here. Thank you. I want to open with a just the just a little piece that opens the book it functions like we were the girls who strolled onto the blacktop. Going towards the boards letting the world spin. The wind in our hair. We were the loud moms and the troublemakers. We were at the party girls. Hitting the clubs in height top jordans. We where the wild girls who loved music and dancing. Girls who were black and brown and poor and queer girls who love each other. I had been those girls on a greyho
The anger just surged through me. Now, a mother turns detective. Her words to me, ill never forget were, i just want to know what happened to my daughter. Join in as she hunts for a killer and searches for the truth. I wanted to put my fists through the tv. Still brings my the hair up on my neck. The confession. 18 years old, amy dodge was eager to live life on her own terms finding a job, a new apartment, and then she was stabbed to death in her bedroom, within months, a local named christopher admitted to be one of the killers. A grizzly murder captured on videotape, but for her mom, the details on tape did not give her answers. In fact, they raised more questions. Heres keith morrison. They kept him here. Deep inside the multiple walls and the armed doors, the rolls and rolls of razor wire, the confessed stabber, convicted killer that stabbed a sweet woman all those years ago. Lucky to be alive, probably, given the nature of the crime and the appeal from the girls mother for the dea