Author Juan B. Guerrero Ávila will speak and sign books at Librería Martínez de Chapman University this Saturday, February 8 at 4 p.m. He’ll be talking about his novel Mi Amigo el Flamboyan (My Friend the Flamboyan Tree). Set during the tyranny of Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, it’s the touching story of a family where the father’s absence is overcome by the mother’s wishes of progress for her children.