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(205) 444-7800 Mon - Thu 9-9, Fri 9-6, Sat 10-6, Sun 1-5
Authors discuss the writing of African Town.
The last book in the Stories of Exile Book Club series is African Town, a story about the journey of 110 captured Africans brought to Mobile, Alabama, on the last slave ship, Clotilde. Enjoy an evening in discussion with authors Irene Latham and Charles Waters as they share the inspiration for their young-adult novel-in-verse, and talk about the incredible writing journey that brought them face-to-face with the living descendants of those 110 exiles.
This workshop is part of the ongoing "Stories of Exile" program series. The Yiddish Book Center’s “Stories of Exile” Reading Groups for Public Libraries is a reading and discussion program to engage teens and adults in thinking about experiences of displacement, migration, and diaspora. In this program, librarians organize reading groups to discuss three books of Yiddish literature in translation, and one book related to the experience of a community served by their library.
Live-stream this event on the Hoover Library Facebook and YouTube pages.
| Mon, Jan 13 | 9:00AM to 9:00PM |
| Tue, Jan 14 | 9:00AM to 9:00PM |
| Wed, Jan 15 | 9:00AM to 9:00PM |
| Thu, Jan 16 | 9:00AM to 9:00PM |
| Fri, Jan 17 | 9:00AM to 6:00PM |
| Sat, Jan 18 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
| Sun, Jan 19 | 1:00PM to 5:00PM |
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