Rabih Alameddine and Tope Folarin at the Baltimore Book Festival

We’re so excited to see you at the Baltimore Book Festival, where you can visit us at our booth on Sept. 13-14. On Sunday, September 14th, we are thrilled to be hosting the 31st St. Stage!

Kick off your day at the Festival at 11AM with Rabih Alameddine and Tope Folarin, whom we are so excited to be hosting in conversation about:

• Rabih’s new novel THE TRUE TRUE STORY OF RAJA THE GULLIBLE (AND HIS MOTHER), a tragicomic love story set in Lebanon, and a modern saga of family, memory, and the unbreakable attachment of a son and his mother
• And Tope’s 2019 instant classic A PARTICULAR KIND OF BLACK MAN, about about a Nigerian family living in Utah and their uneasy assimilation to American life.
  

Rabih Alameddine is the author of the novels The Wrong End of the Telescope; Angel of History; An Unnecessary Woman; The Hakawati; I, the Divine; Koolaids; the story collection, The Perv; and one work of nonfiction, Comforting Myths. He has won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and was a finalist for the National Book Award. He received the Dos Passos Prize in 2019 and a Lannan Award in 2021. More online at www.rabihalameddine.com.

Tope Folarin is a Nigerian-American writer based in Washington DC. He serves as Director of the Institute for Policy Studies and the Lannan Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing at Georgetown University. He is the recipient of the Caine Prize for African Writing, the Whiting Award for Fiction, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, among other awards. His debut novel, A Particular Kind of Black Man, was published by Simon & Schuster.

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