A Different Kind of Justice
BY Kaitlyn Greenidge
From: Lenny
I first heard Natashia Deon read from her novel Grace six years ago. She stood at the podium in full silence for 30 seconds, encouraging all of us to lean a little bit closer to her, to listen. And when she finally began reading, I am not exaggerating when I say that I heard people gasp.
Grace is now a novel out in the world. It follows the life histories of three women — an enslaved woman, her daughter, and a Jewish woman, set in the antebellum and post-Emancipation South, a period that most Americans know nothing about but that we point to again and again as proof of American progress. It is an exploration of race, memory, trauma, and joy.
Book Group at Santa Monica Main Library
This year come celebrate the Leimert Park Village Book Fiar’s 10th anniversary. It’s been decade of bring black literary artiest to Los Angeles.
Dodgers Storytime at Arroyo Seco Regional Library
oung Adult Event
I new when I read “The White Boy Shuffle” as a junior in college that Paul Beatty had written the book every afflicted black boy wannabe novelist dreamed of creating. Because we lived in the United States, and because we were black boys, and because we were not white boys, and because the publishing industry in the United States was the publishing industry in the United States, we knew there could be only one.
