Fall Faith-based Initiatives
Once again Fall is full of Faith-based and Faith-adjacent Initiatives! Today, on this crucial Election Day, I'll be at East Bay Booksellers in conversation with Wayétu Moore. Her acclaimed novel from Graywolf Press, She Would Be King, offers a magical retelling of Liberia's history through 3 characters - a Liberia villager, a Jamaican Maroon, and an enslaved American. 11/6 7pm #Oakland #Africanliterature #Liberia #WayétuMoore #EastBayBooksellers #Oakland #AfricanBookClub #Bla
4 Great Faith-Adjacent Events in November!
I'm SUPER excited to be moderating an evening with Zinzi Clemmons, whose debut novel WHAT WE LOSE is burning up the charts! Not only will she be coming straight from the Aké Book Festival in Nigeria, but we have tons in common: She's a mixed-race Halfrican (South African + American) with an Ivy League + VONA/Voices education, experimenting with structure. Told in vignettes that draw from photography, SMS, blogs, newspapers, and encyclopedias, WHAT WE LOSE questions the legacy
