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Sweet Undoings by Yanick Lahens (Author), Kaiama L. Glover (Translator)
Saturdays, 12-130p: 8/2, 8/9, 8/16, & 8/23
James Baldwin Outdoor Learning Center
100 W Mosholu Parkway S., The Bronx
• Pages assigned after each session
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Tuesdays, 7-830p: 8/5, 8/12, 8/29, & 8/26
Zoom
8/5: Pgs 1-49
8/12: Pgs 50-93
8/29: Pgs 93-131
8/26: Pgs 132-end
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In Sweet Undoings, Port-au-Prince pulses with contradiction—violence and beauty intertwine. French journalist Francis is captivated by Brune, a lounge singer haunted by her father’s unsolved assassination. Refusing to accept his death, she and her uncle Pierre, a gay exile returned, seek justice. Francis meets others bound to the city’s rhythm: Ézèchiel, a struggling poet; Waner, a pacifist; and Ronny, an American at home in Haiti. Through them, the novel explores a city where survival and grace coexist. With electric energy and tenderness, the story unveils the complex, unyielding spirit of a people living against the odds.

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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
September 27: 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.
 

SOON COME…

My Parents' Marriage by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond

Saturdays, 12-130pm: 10/11, 10/18, 10/25, 11/1, & 11/8

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

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.