Local Author Paula Delgado-Kling Launches Riveting Memoir Today

Local Author Paula Delgado-Kling is celebrating the launch of her nonfiction book today. In Leonor: The Story of a Lost Childhood, Delgado-Kling takes us to her homeland, Colombia, where she finds answers to the country’s drug wars by examining the life of Leonor, a former child soldier in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), once a deadly cocaine-trafficking group on the U.S. State Department’s terrorism list.

Colombia’s violence also touched the author’s family. The idea for this nonfiction narrative began with the question: why was Paula Delgado-Kling’s brother kidnapped, and why were his guards teenagers?

“I wrote this book because when I was in graduate school, I heard the term ‘failed state’ in reference to my family’s home, Colombia, and I wished to find out for myself what that meant. I quickly realized children were the invisible casualties of this conflict,” explains Paula Delgado-Kling.

Tonight at 6:00pm ET, the author will be doing a reading and signing copies of the book at Shakespeare & Co UWS.

To learn more, please visit PaulaDelgadoKling.com.