ABOUT JESSICA
Jessica Hoppe is a Honduran Ecuadorian writer and the author of First in the Family (Flatiron Books, 2024), which was selected by Esquire, People, San Francisco Chronicle, Marie Claire, Latina Media, and HipLatina as one of the best memoirs of 2024.
Named a writer to watch by Publishers Weekly (Fall 2024), Hoppe's work has appeared in the Latino Book Review, The New York Times, Vogue, and elsewhere. Hoppe is a board member of Time of Butterflies, a nonprofit supporting families through domestic abuse recovery, and is an organizer with the CentAm & Isthmian Writers group. She lives in New York City.
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CEID Committee for equity, Inclusion, and Diversity
William C. Bonaudi Library is the Winner of Latinx Kid Bookfest And Penguin Random House Campus Visit Fund Spring 2025
Contact: RhondaK@bigbend.edu
This will be virtual in the Masto Conference rooms C/D and online. Email for Zoom link.
ENJOY
In person we will have a yogurt parfait buffet.
THE BOOK
We will have more books closer to the event. Let me know if you would like to be on the waitlist. We are making copies of the book introduction available as Hoppe said that should be useful for those who have not read the book.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING...
"An unflinching and intimate memoir of recovery by Jessica Hoppe, Latinx writer, advocate, and creator of NuevaYorka.
“A powerful thunderclap of a memoir.” ―Lilliam Rivera, author of Dealing in Dreams
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024: Today.com, LupitaReads, Electric Literature, Esquire, Publishers Weekly
In this deeply moving and lyrical memoir, Hoppe shares an intimate, courageous account of what it means to truly interrupt cycles of harm. For readers of The Recovering by Leslie Jamison, Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C. Ford, and Heavy by Kiese Laymon.
During the first year of quarantine, drug overdoses spiked, the highest ever recorded. And Hoppe’s cousin was one of them. “I never learned the true history of substance use disorder in my family,” Hoppe writes. “People just disappeared.” At the time of her cousin’s death, she’d been in recovery for nearly four years, but she hadn’t told anyone.
In First in the Family, Hoppe shares her journey, the first in her family to do so, and takes the reader on a remarkable investigation of her family’s history, the American Dream, and the erasure of BIPOC from recovery institutions and narratives, leaving the reader with an urgent message of hope." - Amazon
OTHER
7 words that saved my life ( short )
7 words that saved my life (long)
POSTER
SUCCESS TIPS
Space of your own?
Use Study Rooms for solo and group work.
They have flatscreens and whiteboards.
First come-First Serve.
Digital Divide
The Library laptops, calculators, headphones, mouses,webcams, & tech. Schedule here.
Peace
Saturdays, noon to 5pm, & Monday - Thursday 5-8 are usually very quiet at the library. More library hours here.
Explore
The Library has print books and a vast amount of eBooks, journals, newspapers, magazines, & videos 24/7/365.
Why stay in your lane? Use free resources to find your highway.
Did you know the Library has databases for Spanish speakers? Check these out.
Human Touch
The Library does live online, but it loves in person. Cushy chairs.Places to zone out. Tables and spaces to spread out. Coffee. Snack bags. Children’s books. Graphic novels.
Huge windows looking out on the quad.
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