By Nicole West
Domingo Martinez, New York Times bestselling author, will present his memoir, written around the culture of machismo, “The Boy Kings of Texas.”
The presentation, hosted by the 410 Reading Club, is free and open to the public from 7 p.m.-8:30 p.m. Thursday at Texas A&M University-San Antonio’s Educational and Cultural Arts Center, located at 101 S. Santa Rosa Ave.
A&M-San Antonio’s library and Palo Alto College’s Ozuna Library united to provide a reading club that will focus this fall on modern Mexican Americans in South Texas.
Subject Librarian Jacob Sherman said the club was initiated by Camille Fiorillo, a librarian at Palo Alto College.
“We just decided it would be a good idea to put together a series of programs to host on the South Side,” Sherman said. “Just because there’s a lack of those kinds of programming on the South Side.”
In his memoir, a 2012 National Book Award finalist, Martinez focuses on aggression and anger in the struggle of growing up in Brownsville in the 1980s with an abusive father and a neglectful mother.
Communications Specialist Jillian Reddish said parking options include city parking lots and Market Square plaza.
Downtown parking lot meters are free after 6 p.m.
For more information, contact Jacob Sherman at (210) 784-1506.
