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Oscar C\u00e1sares is from a town called Brownsville, located at the southern end of the Rio Grande River, just across the bridge from Matamoros, Mexico. Originally from San Luis Potos\u00ed, his ancestors settled in this border region back in the 1850s, and since then have spread far and wide across the country.<\/p>\n
When he is not involved in teaching creative writing courses at the University of Texas at Austin, Oscar C\u00e1sares writes novels, stories, and essays about the border. His first book was a story collection called Brownsville<\/em>, which was named a Notable Book of 2004 by the American Library Association. Amigoland<\/em>, his first novel, was selected for the 2009 Austin Mayor\u2019s Book Club, a citywide reading initiative by Austin Public Library.<\/p>\n In his talk here in Augsburg, he will introduce his new novel, Where We Come From<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, to the audience, which was published in May 2019. According to the author, it is \u201ca lot of things\u2014too many to list here\u2014but what I can tell you is that I wrote it to understand what happens when you are separated from a place or a person but a piece of that place or person never leaves you.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Stadtb\u00fccherei Augsburg | 09.07.2019 | 18 Uhr | freier Eintritt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"