Annabelle Tometich
May 17, 2025

6 – 7:15 p.m.

Doors open at 6 at the Art Museum of South Texas. Food and wine will be served at Elizabeth’s during the Patrons’ Party.

7:30 – 8:30 p.m.

Reading & Q&A with the author.
Tickets: $10, students are free.

8:30 – 9 p.m.

Book signing by the author (Books available for purchase on site and in advance at Half-Price Books)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Annabelle Tometich, has been awarded the Southern Book Prize in Nonfiction. Annabelle spent eighteen years as a food critic for her hometown newspaper before writing her debut memoir. The Mango Tree revolves around her mother’s 2015 arrest for shooting a BB gun at a couple she claimed were stealing her mangoes. Parts of her story sound so unbelievable they must be true.

The New York Times Book Review described how Tometich “…writes scene and dialogue with the metronomic precision of a seasoned broadsheet reporter, her ledes and kickers often bearing a sly, precocious slant.” She has won multiple awards for her stories which have appeared in The Washington Post, USA Today, and Food & Travel Writing.

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NATHAN HILL

Nathan Hill is an American fiction writer and former news reporter. He won the 2016 Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for his novel The Nix. In September 2023, his novel Wellness was selected by Oprah Winfrey as a selection for her Oprah’s Book Club 2.0.

For a full list of authors who have been our guests, see Past Readings.

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