In New York Times bestseller author Silas House’s Lark Ascending, a young man seeks refuge from widespread fires and religious nationalism in the United States and sets off with a makeshift family in search of a safe new home. In International Latino Book Awards gold medalist Sergio Troncoso’s Nobody’s Pilgrims, three teenagers travel northeast seeking better lives but violence follows them.

Moderator: Hillery Hugg, fiction and nonfiction author and editor / museum editorSilas House, Sergio Troncoso, Lark Ascending, Nobody’s Pilgrims