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Celeste Mohammed With Tracey Baptiste: A Conversation
November 17, 2022, Time:2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Coconut trees. Carnival. Rum and Coke. To outsiders, these idyllic images represent the so-called easy life in Caribbean nations such as Trinidad and Tobago. For those who live there the reality is very different, and in Pleasantview: A Novel in Stories, Trinidadian lawyer-turned-writer Celeste Mohammed reveals a society where poverty and patriarchy savagely rule – and love and revenge often go hand in hand. Writing in a combination of English and Trinidad Creole, she sets the stories in a fictional town in Trinidad. There we meet a political candidate who sets out to slaughter endangered turtles for fun, a rival candidate who beats his “outside woman” so severely that she loses their baby, and a young boy with a gun. Moderating is Tracey Baptiste, New York Times bestselling author of Minecraft: The Crash.
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- Date:
- November 17, 2022
- Time:
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Event Categories:
- Fiction, On Demand
- Event Tags:
- Celebrating Women, Discussion
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- Event Year
- 2022