An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children: Jamaica Kincaid and Tiphanie Yanique
Schedule
Wed May 15 2024 at 07:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History | Atlanta, GA
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This event is free and open to the public, but registration is encouraged. Please register HERE. This event takes place at the Auburn Avenue Research Library, 101 Auburn Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30303.Charis and Auburn Avenue Research Library welcome Jamaica Kincaid in conversation with Tiphanie Yanique for a celebration of An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children, a unique collaboration from two of America’s leading artists that explores the fascinating and hidden history of the plant world.
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In this witty, deeply original book, the renowned novelist Jamaica Kincaid offers an ABC of the plants that define our world and reveals the often brutal history behind them.
Kara Walker, one of America’s greatest visual artists, illustrates each entry with provocative, brilliant, enthralling, many-layered watercolors.
There has never been a book like An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children—so inventive, surprising, and telling about what our gardens reveal.
Jamaica Kincaid was born in St. John’s, Antigua. Her books include At the Bottom of the River, Annie John, Lucy, The Autobiography of My Mother, My Brother, Mr. Potter, and See Now Then. She teaches at Harvard University and lives in Vermont.
Tiphanie Yanique is the author of the award-winning novels Land of Love and Drowning and Monster in the Middle, as well as the poetry collection Wife. Winner of the 2014 Center for Fiction First Novel award, and a National Book Foundation 5 under 35 honoree, she has also received a Rona Jaffe Award and a Fulbright scholarship. Her short fiction has been published in The New Yorker and anthologized in Best American Short Stories 2020. Originally from the Virgin Islands, she now lives in Atlanta, where she is a professor at Emory University.
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Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, 39 Courtland St NE, Atlanta, GA 30303-25ND, United States,Atlanta, GeorgiaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
