Join writer Manuela Gomez Rhine as she debuts her new novel, The Palm Tree Chronicles: A Los Angeles Love Story, and take a multi-media journey through Southern California landscapes past and present. From the classic 1884 novel Ramona and its impact on the region, to the Huntington Gardens, the destroyed Mexican neighborhood of Chavez Ravine, and finally, the South Central Farm, Gomez Rhine explores a legacy of SoCal land rights - who can stay and who must go in the quest to find home.

Originally from Los Angeles, Manuela Gomez Rhine lives in Oaxaca, Mexico.

This program is free and open to all.