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(S)Kin by Ibi Zoboi
Saturdays, 12-130p: 9/6, 9/13, 9/20, 9/27, & 10/4
Andrew Freedman Home, 1125 Grand Concourse, The Bronx
OCTOBER 4: Ibi Zoboi joins the conversation
September 6: Free book giveaway
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Tuesdays, 7-830p on Zoom: 9/9, 9/16, 9/23, & 9/30
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Fifteen-year-old Marisol is the daughter of a soucouyant, a fireball witch who sheds her skin every new moon to sip life from others. Brooklyn’s bright lights and locked windows are no place for such magic, yet Marisol can’t escape the traditions her mother keeps alive.
Seventeen-year-old Genevieve, daughter of a professor and half sister to newborn twins, suffers sleepless nights—her skin worsening, her hunger deepening. When a new nanny arrives, a secret linking her to Marisol surfaces, revealing a shared legacy neither girl fully understands.
Together, they learn that the skin hiding their flames may threaten the people they love more than any ancient curse.
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My Parents' Marriage by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
Saturdays, 12-130pm: 10/11, 10/18, 10/25, 11/1, & 11/8
Venue TBD
Tuesdays, 7-830pm on Zoom: 10/14, 10/21, 10/28, & 11/4
Acclaimed children’s author Nana Brew-Hammond makes her highly anticipated return with this soaring and profound story about love and understanding told through three generations of one Ghanaian family.
Determined to avoid the pain and instability of her parents’ turbulent, confusing marriage, Kokui marries a man far different from her loving, philandering, self-made father—and tries to be a different kind of wife from her mother.
But when Kokui and her husband leave Ghana to make a new life for themselves in America, she finds history repeating itself. Her marriage failing, she is called home to Ghana when her father dies. Back in her childhood home, which feels both familiar and discomforting, she comes to realize that to exorcize the ghosts of her parents’ marriage, she must confront them to enable her healing.
The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture by Courtney Thorsson
Saturdays, 12-130pm: 11/29, 12/6, 12/13, 12/20, & 12/27
Venue TBD
Tuesdays, 7-130pm on Zoom: 12/2, 12/9, 12/16, & 12/23
The Sisterhood chronicles how a groundbreaking community reshaped American writing and cultural institutions. Drawing on interviews, correspondence, and archival materials, Courtney Thorsson reveals how the group championed Black women writers at publishers, magazines, and in academia, often facing racist, sexist, and homophobic resistance. She examines their rise in the 1980s, the challenges of Black feminism’s integration into academia, and the legacy carried forward by younger writers. The book celebrates the organizing, networking, and community building that made The Sisterhood a lasting model for Black feminist collaboration.
