The Places We Carry
Home can be the place a person come from, the place they long to escape, and the place that continues to shape them long after they have left. In Douglas Stuart’s John of John, Cal returns to the remote Isle of Harris and to his father, whose expectations of his son clash with Cal’s struggle […]
Eduardo Halfon and María José de Tellería – The Green Otter
A tiny green otter who wins over the heart of the young boy in a story that speaks to every child with a beloved and unique friend. Author Eduardo Halfon reads and illustrator María José de Tellería draws as they tell the story of a small boy inseparable from his green otter.
Viet Thanh Nguyen and Imani Perry in Conversation: Nonfiction and the Personal Lens
Join us for a conversation between two esteemed authors who explore identity, culture, class, and history through a personal lens. In her book Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People, Imani Perry examines the relationship between the color blue and its presence in Black history. In his book To Save […]
Edwidge Danticat – Watch Out For Falling Iguanas
When the weather turns cold, look out above. That’s the advice when your grandmother warns you to watch out for falling iguanas. Find out in Edwidge Danticat’s enchanting story book about chilly iguanas and what children can learn about this unique creature.
Alternate Realities
In Ed Park’s Same Bed Different Dreams, fiction and reality blur across time in an alternate history of Korea. Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland follows Adina as she reports on humanity to her extraterrestrial relatives. This Great Hemisphere by Mateo Askaripour brings us 500 years into the future where the world is divided into the Invisibles and […]
Of Spirits and Monsters
From the peripheries of death, in a Taiwanese village, occupied Korea, and a decaying Mexican estate, come stories of lives marginalized by sexual orientation and class, and devastated by war and grief. In Kevin Chen’s Ghost Town (translated by Darryl Sterk) and Yu Miri’s The End of August (translated by Morgan Giles), the dead tell […]
Of Spirits and Monsters
From the peripheries of death, in a Taiwanese village, occupied Korea, and a decaying Mexican estate, come stories of lives marginalized by sexual orientation and class, and devastated by war and grief. In Kevin Chen’s Ghost Town (translated by Darryl Sterk) and Yu Miri’s The End of August (translated by Morgan Giles), the dead tell […]