For the final episode of Season 2 of Writing Latinos, we talked with Karla Cornejo
Villavicencio about her new novel, Catalina, published by One World. It is an engrossing
read about a young woman named Catalina, who lived in Ecuador as a small girl,
migrated to New York to live with her grandparents, attended Harvard University, and,
by the novel’s end, finds herself flirting with a career in writing and publishing. We talked
about the sorts of lessons we learn about Latin American history from our families and our professors,  Catalina’s encounter with different kinds of Latinos at Harvard, as well as her desire for fame and
stardom, and the differences between writing fiction and creative non-fiction, which was
the genre of Cornejo Villavicencio’s first book, The Undocumented Americans, a
finalist for a National Book Award. Thank you for listening to Season 2 and stay
tuned for an announcement about Season 3.