"IraqiGirl Meets El Monstruo," an author talk by John Ross
On February 16th, Monkey Wrench will host globetrotting troublemaker John Ross, who
El Monstruo will read from his two new cult classics: IraqiGirl (Diary of a Teenage Girl in Iraq), which has been called "an Anne Frank for our time", and "El Monstruo - Dread & Redemption in Mexico City", the tangled tale of the most contaminated, corrupt, crime-ridden, and chaotic city in the Americas that has just been selected as "book of the year" by the San Antonio Express News.