Cleyvis Natera Finds Joy Unexpectedly

The Book Case

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Fiction, Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.1 • 766 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Cleyvis Natera took 15 years to write Neruda on the Park, and you can see why when you read the novel. There many pieces of the book that speak to Natera's life: navigating America with and on behalf of her parents, seeing gentrification slowly creep into the neighborhoods she has loved, the flawed and complex relationships between generations of women within one community. Kate had a chance to sit down with Cleyvis at the recent Brooklyn Book Festival and they talked about how Cleyvis' growth and maturity contributed to the growth and maturity of her novel. We then talk to Book Ends and Beginnings in Evanston, Illinois, a book lovers bookstore in a great college town. Books mentioned in this podcast: Neruda on the Park by Cleyvis Natera When I was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago The Candy House by Jennifer Egan The Street by Ann Petry The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats Matrix by Lauren Groff Marrying the Ketchups by Jennifer Close Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.6	Well, I know you're excited. The bookcase is back. I'm Charles Gibson. And I'm barely
0:41.3	containing my excitement, and I'm Kate Gibson. Anyway, we do welcome you back, as we do every week.
0:47.7	Today's podcast is going to require a bit of explanation. We might, as I do in my mind,
0:57.0	entitled it Kate Goes Solo. Kate called me a number of weeks ago and said, what do you know about book festivals and book fairs? And I had to
1:02.6	admit, as I often do on many subjects, that I didn't know anything about book festivals and book fairs.
1:08.4	And she said, well, there's one in Brooklyn, and they exist
1:10.9	in a lot of cities. And apparently a lot of authors come together, and people can come in and listen
1:16.1	to them talk and buy their books. And I'm sort of curious to experience one. So I said, okay,
1:22.1	and it was occurring on a weekend when I couldn't go. She came into town, went to the Brooklyn
1:26.9	Book Fair. And Kate, what happened? Well, first, I couldn't go. She came into town, went to the Brooklyn Book Fair, and Kate, what
1:28.7	happened? Well, first, I blessed my parents with, with their presence by crashing at their
1:34.1	apartment. It was really, it's an amazing thing, a book festival. It's a place where book nerds
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