Past Event
Saturday, July 15, 2017, 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Writers to Watch: Dominic Carrillo
330 Park Boulevard, San Diego, 92101
Cost: Free
Dominic Carrillo will discuss his book The Improbable Rise of Paco Jones in the Jaffe room on the 5th floor. This program is part of the as part of the Friends of the Central Library’s Writers to Watch program. Paco Jones is a teen stuck between two worlds and doesn’t fit into either one. As a half-white, half-Mexican boy attending an elite private school his parents sacrifice to send him to Paco is bullied because of his race, clothes, and food and is quite the loner. Until one day, when a note is passed and an unlikely friendship is formed with a girl and her boyfriend.