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Join authors Roberto Lovato and Mike Davis for a lively conversation on violence, migration, and the possibility of revolution, in celebration of the release of Lovato\u2019s gripping new memoir Unforgetting.\n\nAn urgent, no-holds-barred tale of gang life, guerrilla warfare, intergenerational trauma, and interconnected violence between the United States and El Salvador, Roberto Lovato\u2019s memoir excavates family history and reveals the intimate stories beneath headlines about gang violence and mass Central American migration, one of the most important, yet least-understood humanitarian crises of our time\u2014and one in which the perspectives of Central Americans in the United States have been silenced and forgotten.\n\nIn Unforgetting, Roberto interweaves his father\u2019s complicated history and his own with first-hand reportage on gang life, state violence, and the heart of the immigration crisis in both El Salvador and the United States. In doing so he makes the political personal, revealing the cyclical ways violence operates in our homes and our societies, as well as the ways hope and tenderness can rise up out of the darkness if we are courageous enough to unforget.\n\nRoberto Lovato is a journalist and a member of The Writers Grotto. He is one of the country\u2019s leading writers and thinkers on Central American gangs, refugees, violence and other issues. Lovato is also a co-founder of #DignidadLiteraria, the national movement formed to combat the invisibility and silencing of Latinx stories and books in the U.S. publishing industry. He is also recipient of a reporting grant from the Pulitzer Center and a former fellow at U.C. Berkeley\u2019s Latinx Research Center. His essays and reporting have appeared in numerous publications including Guernica, Boston Globe, Foreign Policy, Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Der Spiegel, La Opinion, and other national and international publications. He lives in San Francisco.\n\nMike Davis is the author of City of Quartz, Late Victorian Holocausts, Buda\u2019s Wagon, and Planet of Slums. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award. He lives in San Diego.\n\nOur official bookstore partner for this event is Unabridged Bookstore. To purchase Unforgetting by Roberto Lovato from Unabridged Bookstore, call 773.883.9119. Or click here: https://www.unabridgedbookstore.com/event/virtual-event-unforgetting-roberto-lovato-and-mike-davis-haymarket-books\n\nWatch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/CIwOCd8HUyE\n\nBuy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org\n\nFollow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks