It all works thanks to the author’s keen appreciation of storytelling’s role in shaping cultures, dreams, and lives. With poetic use of startling imagery and unabashed nostalgia, Higuera spins a tale that crosses the depths of space, interweaving Mexican folklore with a mystical strand of science fiction. As she shares cuentos with other child passengers to stir their Earth memories, Petra concocts a plan to escape, seeking a rumored Collective-free colony of First Arrivers on Sagan. To survive the Collective’s fanaticism, Petra must play her part and participate in scouting missions on Sagan to help the Collective prepare for colonization. Along the way to Sagan, the Collective has ensured the eradication of any Earth-associated memories, reprogramming everyone onboard-and purging some-for the so-called greater good. Petra awakens years later to find that the ominous Collective has taken over her ship.
One ship-reserved for leaders and politicians-is lost.
Tearing herself away from her grandma and her cuentos, or stories, Petra Peña follows her family aboard one of three fleeing spaceships. Only a select few have the opportunity to vacate Earth in the year 2061, travel for 380 years in stasis, and start a new life on the planet of Sagan. With Halley’s comet barreling toward Earth, humanity’s last hope-including a young Latinx storyteller-retreats into the stars. Seattle Public Library will also livestream the event. … I never thought I would have published works."īrick & Mortar Books in Redmond hosts a meet and greet with Donna Barba Higuera on Friday, March 4, starting at 6 p.m. I was writing because I love writing, and it doesn't feel like a hobby per se, but it's an outlet for me. On starting writing later in life: "I don't know that I intended for it to be a career. And so the character in this book is that kid.” But I also wondered if I was ever going to be Mexican enough, and that was a hard place to be. On being mixed race: “There were also times where I always felt like … I was never going to be white enough. But she really wanted to be a storyteller.” It's a girl whose parents wanted her to go into science, which I did. On the main character in the book: “This character in some ways is me. Listen above, and read some excerpts below: Donna Barba Higuera, 52, lives in Issaquah, practices optometry in Bellevue and recently won the Newbery Medal for “The Last Cuentista.” You might have heard about a local writer winning one of the biggest awards in literature: the Newbery Medal for young adult fiction. Courtesy of the author The cover of Donna Barba Higuera's book "The Last Cuentista"
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