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Paula Delgado-Kling discusses LEONOR: THE STORY OF A LOST CHILDHOOD

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Join Barnes &amp; Noble Tribeca on Thursday, January 25th for a discussion and live signing as we welcome Paula Delgado-Kling to celebrate the release of LEONOR: THE STORY OF A LOST CHILDHOOD.Paula Delgado-Kling takes us to her homeland, Colombia, where she finds answers to the country&rsquo;s drug wars by examining the life of Leonor, a former child soldier in the FARC, a rural guerrilla group.<h3>ABOUT THE BOOK</h3>Paula followed Leonor for nineteen years, from shortly after she was an active member forced into sexual slavery by a commander thirty-four years her senior, through her rehabilitation and struggle with alcohol and drug addiction, to more recent days, as the mom of two girls. Leonor&rsquo;s immense resourcefulness and imagination in the face of horrendous circumstances helped her carve a space for herself in the FARC, a world dominated by males. She is beautiful, and by honing her powers of seduction, Leonor created a parallel world where she made herself a protagonist. She never stopped believing that she was a woman of worth and importance. It took her many years of therapy to accept that she was a victim. For half a lifetime, she regarded herself as &ldquo;the First Lady of the Southern Bloc,&rdquo; and exploited any power she fabricated for herself to stay alive. Colombia&rsquo;s violence also touched Paula&rsquo;s family. This narrative began with the question: why was her brother kidnapped and why were his guards teenagers?<h3>ABOUT THE AUTHOR</h3>Paula Delgado-Kling holds degrees in comparative literature/French civilizations, international affairs, and creative writing from Brown University, Columbia University, and The New School, respectively. Leonor, for which she received two grants from the Canadian Council for the Arts, is her first book. Excerpts of this book have appeared in Narrative, The Literary Review, Pacifica Literary Review, and Happano.org in Japan. Her work for the Mexican monthly news magazine Gatopardo was nominated for the Simon Bolivar Award, Colombia&rsquo;s top journalism prize, and anthologized in Las Mejores Cr&oacute;nicas de Gatopardo (Random House Mondadori, 2006). Born in Bogota, Colombia and raised in Toronto, Canada, Delgado-Kling now resides in New York City. To learn more, please visit PaulaDelgadoKling.com.

Leonor: The Story of a Lost Childhood

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