Tim Z. Hernandez is an award-winning author, research scholar, and performer. His work includes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. He is the recipient of an American Book Award and the International Latino Book Award, and his work has been featured in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, C-SPAN, NPR’s All Things Considered, and many others. Hernandez holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Writing & Literature from Bennington College and he is an Associate Professor with the University of Texas El Paso’s Bilingual Creative Writing program. His book, All They Will Call You, chronicles his research locating the victims of the 1948 plane wreck at Los Gatos Canyon, for which he was honored by the California State Senate. The second installment, a memoir based on the search, is They Call You Back: A Lost History, A Search, A Memoir.
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They Call You Back: A Lost History, A Search, A Memoir
A haunting, an obsession, a calling: Tim Z. Hernandez has been searching for people his whole life. Now, in this highly anticipated memoir, he takes us along on an investigative odyssey through personal and collective history to uncover the surprising conjunctions that bind our stories together.
Hernandez’s mission to find the families of the twenty-eight Mexicans who were killed in the 1948 plane wreck at Los Gatos Canyon formed the basis for his acclaimed genre-bending work, "All They Will Call You," which the "San Francisco Chronicle" dubbed “a stunning piece of investigative journalism,” and the "New York Times" hailed as “painstaking detective work by a writer who is the descendant of farmworkers.”
In this riveting new work, Hernandez continues his search for the plane crash victims while also turning the lens on himself and his ancestral past, revealing the tumultuous and deeply intimate experiences that have fueled his investigations—a lifelong journey haunted by memory, addiction, generational trauma, and the spirit world.
"They Call You Back" is the true chronicle of one man’s obsession to restore dignity to an undignified chapter in America’s past, while at the same time making a case for why we must heal our personal wounds if we are ever to heal our political ones.
