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Loretta Lopez: Middle Grade Author and Clinical Social Worker on Debut Novel "City Girls"
Loretta Lopez in conversation with Dr. Elisabeth Paige shares her writing journey from early encouragement and mentors to publishing her debut middle-grade novel, "City Girls", and explains how her work as a case manager for undocumented children inspired the character Elisa and the asylum storyline. She summarizes the book’s three 11-year-old protagonists—Elisa, Lucia, and Alice—each facing trauma, grief, divorce, or a parent’s illness as their friendship develops over a school year, and discusses using different narrative forms for each voice. Lopez addresses writing about abuse for middle graders, announces the Spanish translation coming in May, and desc...
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peditations or pet centered meditations which are recorded as part of the videos well welcome loretta lopez thank you so much for doing this your work sounds so interesting and and very, very important. And this book was incredibly powerful. The book City Girls is your debut novel. Hopefully, we'll see a lot more from you. Hopefully. Thank you so much for having
me, Elizabeth. Would you like to take a moment to introduce yourself? Yeah, so my name is Loretta Lopez. I am a author and also a clinical social worker, so therapist. So I do both jobs and I enjoy them very, very much. What else can I say about myself? I'm Mexican-American. I'm bilingual, bicultural. I grew up in Mexico, but now I live in the United States. I'm based in Brooklyn.
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