Book Talk + Signing with Katie Sweeting: "Remnant"
Schedule
Fri Sep 20 2024 at 06:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
734 Harden St., Columbia, SC, United States, South Carolina 29205 | Columbia, SC
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Join us for an author talk and signing with Katie Sweeting for her newest book, Remnant.Kidnapped along with her brother Ledu (Olaudah Equiano) at the tender age of eleven, Olu is dragged across Nigeria, deposited on a slave ship for the Middle Passage, and dropped on a rice plantation in Charles Town, South Carolina in 1753. During the Revolutionary War she attempts to escape. Will she succeed? Will she reunite with any of her family members?
Joanna Vassa (Olu's niece) is half-English and half-African, an orphan in England - the year is 1797. Raised by her guardian, she has no African family members, and the white girls in her boarding school treat her as an outcast. As her self-worth plummets, Joanna embraces the women's abolition movement and seeks to find her Aunt Olu. Will they ever meet?
Remnant is a bildungsroman about two young women of color striving to carve out meaningful lives despite monumental obstacles. Will a family separated by slavery ever be reunited?
Katie Sweeting is professor of English at Hudson County Community College. She is the coauthor of The Power of a City at Prayer (2002). In spring 2022 she taught creative writing at Fergusson College in Pune, India as a Fulbright-Nehru Scholar. She has studied and taught about Olaudah Equiano for fifteen years.
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