7/29 — Book Discussion: “A Flower Traveled in my Blood” with Author Haley Cohen Gilliland
Tuesday, July 29 at 7pm
at Irvington Theater | Get Directions →
Author and director of the Yale Journalism Initiative Haley Cohen Gilliland will discuss her new book, A Flower Traveled in my Blood: the Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children, in an hour long discussion with an interviewer (TBA), followed by an audience Q&A.
For readers of Say Nothing and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the epic, true story of the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, grandmothers who fought to find their stolen grandchildren during Argentina's brutal dictatorship. During the military regime that decimated a generation from 1976-1983, hundreds of pregnant women like Patricia Roisinblit were disappeared—abducted, forced to give birth in captivity, then executed while their newborns were given to police and military families. United by faith that their grandchildren were still alive, fierce grandmothers formed the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, transforming into detectives who confronted military officers, assumed aliases, and pioneered groundbreaking genetics tests to find the stolen children.
A compelling mystery and deeply researched account of a pivotal era in world history, A Flower Traveled in My Blood takes readers on a journey of love, resilience, and redemption, revealing new truths about memory, identity, and family.