Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez, MY SIDE OF THE RIVER: A Memoir

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🗓️ 24 March 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Zibby speaks with debut author Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez about MY SIDE OF THE RIVER, a tender memoir about her experience as the daughter of Mexican immigrants and what happened when her parents were kicked out of the United States when she was just fifteen years old, leaving her to raise her little brother by herself. Elizabeth talks about her childhood in Southern Arizona and then delves into the heart of her story, touching on themes of separation, generational trauma, resilience, and the toll of the American dream. She also reflects on the memoir-writing process, the discomfort of re-sharing painful memories, her TED Talk experience, and her best advice for aspiring authors.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, and I am the host of this podcast. Moms don't have time to read books.
0:08.1	I am also a newly minted USA Today bestselling author of the novel, Blank.
0:14.2	I've created a whole community of book lovers around this podcast, a publishing company, reading retreats, a bookstore, and more.
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0:28.4	Zibi Readers.
0:31.6	Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez is the author of My Side of the River, a memoir.
0:39.1	Elizabeth was born and raised in Tucson,
0:44.0	Arizona as a second generation immigrant. She graduated from high school at the top of her class,
0:49.3	and in 2018 graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in philosophy, politics,
0:53.8	and economics. She worked as a banking analyst at Wells Fargo, and is now a product manager at a big tech company where she uses her background and knowledge to empower communities.
0:58.0	She has been featured on NPR's Latino USA and delivered a viral TED talk on finding opportunity and stability in the United States while examining flaws and narratives that simplify and idealize the immigrant experience.
1:10.0	She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Welcome, Elizabeth.
1:12.6	Thank you so much for coming on Mom's Stone, have time to read books to discuss My Side of the River,
1:17.5	a memoir. Congratulations. Thank you. I'm so excited to be here. Oh, okay. Please tell listeners about
1:24.6	my side of the river. Yeah, so my side of the river is a memoir about my
1:30.6	upbringing in southern Arizona, specifically in Tucson, which is an hour north of the U.S.
1:36.1	Mexico border. And it talks about, you know, being the child of immigrants in a very immigrant neighborhood, south of the
1:46.4	Bredo River here in Tucson, and what that was like for me, especially during the height of
1:53.6	laws like SB 1070 when, you know, we were all worried about, you know, the show me your papers
2:00.6	and what would happen to
2:02.9	families because of that. And the crux of the story really is about what happened when my parents
2:09.0	eventually were forced to return to Mexico. And I was left in the United States alone with my
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