Join us for conversation with Zinzi Clemmons, author of "What We Lose," a powerful novel that questions the nature of identity, grief and love through the eyes of a young woman who loses her mother to cancer.
Clemmons intersperses the narrative with photography, text messages and excerpts from blogs and newspaper articles, creating connections between the reader, the main character and the novel's questions about race, injustice within social systems, the durability of love and the ability to overcome grief. The book confronts the horrors and legacy of apartheid, and the tyranny of race in personal and political realms.
Raised in Philadelphia by a South African mother and an American father, Clemmons is a graduate of Brown and Columbia Universities. She is a cofounder and former publisher of Apogee Journal and contributing editor to Literary Hub. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband.
"What We Lose" was named a summer 2017 recommended read by The New York Times, Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, Elle and Time, among other publications. Vogue called it "the debut novel of the year."
The event will be moderated by Faith Adiele, the daughter of a Nigerian father and Nordic-American mother. The PBS documentary "My Journey Home" is about traveling to West Africa to find her father and siblings. A graduate of Harvard University and the Iowa Writers Workshop, she is co-editor of Coming of Age Around the World: A Multicultural Anthology and author of two memoirs. She lives in Oakland, where she founded the African Book Club and teaches at California College of the Arts, VONA/Voices Summer Workshops for Writers of Color, Esalen, and The San Francisco Writers' Grotto.
Books will be available for sale at the event for $22 plus tax. Book sales provided by Books Inc. Palo Alto.
This event is part of the Crossing Boundaries series. Purchase tickets to three out of five events in the series and save 20%.
In partnership with the African Library Project.
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Clemmons intersperses the narrative with photography, text messages and excerpts from blogs and newspaper articles, creating connections between the reader, the main character and the novel's questions about race, injustice within social systems, the durability of love and the ability to overcome grief. The book confronts the horrors and legacy of apartheid, and the tyranny of race in personal and political realms.
Raised in Philadelphia by a South African mother and an American father, Clemmons is a graduate of Brown and Columbia Universities. She is a cofounder and former publisher of Apogee Journal and contributing editor to Literary Hub. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband.
"What We Lose" was named a summer 2017 recommended read by The New York Times, Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, Elle and Time, among other publications. Vogue called it "the debut novel of the year."
The event will be moderated by Faith Adiele, the daughter of a Nigerian father and Nordic-American mother. The PBS documentary "My Journey Home" is about traveling to West Africa to find her father and siblings. A graduate of Harvard University and the Iowa Writers Workshop, she is co-editor of Coming of Age Around the World: A Multicultural Anthology and author of two memoirs. She lives in Oakland, where she founded the African Book Club and teaches at California College of the Arts, VONA/Voices Summer Workshops for Writers of Color, Esalen, and The San Francisco Writers' Grotto.
Books will be available for sale at the event for $22 plus tax. Book sales provided by Books Inc. Palo Alto.
This event is part of the Crossing Boundaries series. Purchase tickets to three out of five events in the series and save 20%.
In partnership with the African Library Project.
Join us for conversation with Zinzi Clemmons, author of "What We Lose," a powerful novel that questions the nature of identity, grief and love through the eyes of a young woman who loses her mother to cancer.
Clemmons intersperses the narrative with photography, text messages and excerpts from blogs and newspaper articles, creating connections between the reader, the main character and the novel's questions about race, injustice within social systems, the durability of love and the ability to overcome grief. The book confronts the horrors and legacy of apartheid, and the tyranny of race in personal and political realms.
Raised in Philadelphia by a South African mother and an American father, Clemmons is a graduate of Brown and Columbia Universities. She is a cofounder and former publisher of Apogee Journal and contributing editor to Literary Hub. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband.
"What We Lose" was named a summer 2017 recommended read by The New York Times, Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, Elle and Time, among other publications. Vogue called it "the debut novel of the year."
The event will be moderated by Faith Adiele, the daughter of a Nigerian father and Nordic-American mother. The PBS documentary "My Journey Home" is about traveling to West Africa to find her father and siblings. A graduate of Harvard University and the Iowa Writers Workshop, she is co-editor of Coming of Age Around the World: A Multicultural Anthology and author of two memoirs. She lives in Oakland, where she founded the African Book Club and teaches at California College of the Arts, VONA/Voices Summer Workshops for Writers of Color, Esalen, and The San Francisco Writers' Grotto.
Books will be available for sale at the event for $22 plus tax. Book sales provided by Books Inc. Palo Alto.
This event is part of the Crossing Boundaries series. Purchase tickets to three out of five events in the series and save 20%.
In partnership with the African Library Project.
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Clemmons intersperses the narrative with photography, text messages and excerpts from blogs and newspaper articles, creating connections between the reader, the main character and the novel's questions about race, injustice within social systems, the durability of love and the ability to overcome grief. The book confronts the horrors and legacy of apartheid, and the tyranny of race in personal and political realms.
Raised in Philadelphia by a South African mother and an American father, Clemmons is a graduate of Brown and Columbia Universities. She is a cofounder and former publisher of Apogee Journal and contributing editor to Literary Hub. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband.
"What We Lose" was named a summer 2017 recommended read by The New York Times, Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, Elle and Time, among other publications. Vogue called it "the debut novel of the year."
The event will be moderated by Faith Adiele, the daughter of a Nigerian father and Nordic-American mother. The PBS documentary "My Journey Home" is about traveling to West Africa to find her father and siblings. A graduate of Harvard University and the Iowa Writers Workshop, she is co-editor of Coming of Age Around the World: A Multicultural Anthology and author of two memoirs. She lives in Oakland, where she founded the African Book Club and teaches at California College of the Arts, VONA/Voices Summer Workshops for Writers of Color, Esalen, and The San Francisco Writers' Grotto.
Books will be available for sale at the event for $22 plus tax. Book sales provided by Books Inc. Palo Alto.
This event is part of the Crossing Boundaries series. Purchase tickets to three out of five events in the series and save 20%.
In partnership with the African Library Project.
show less
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