In Billy-Ray Belcourt’s A Minor Chorus: A Novel, set against the stark expanse of Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write a novel. His work is informed by a series of poignant encounters, including a heart-to-heart with fellow doctoral student River over the mounting pressure placed on marginalized …
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This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For more information about this in-person program, please visit MiamiBookFair.com. Woman Without Shame: Poems is Sandra Cisneros’ first book of poetry in 28 years. The collection comprises dozens of never-before-seen poems and includes songs, elegies, and declarations that chronicle her pilgrimage toward rebirth and the recognition of her prerogative as a …
Children’s writers from Jamaica get together to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the island’s independence, and explore the continuity and convergence of childhood and adulthood in Caribbean fiction. With Janet Morrison on A Different Me, A Better You, Jean Hawthorn-DaCosta on Leroy: Adventures of a Yaad Boy, and Juleus Ghunta on Rohan Bullkin and the …
This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For more information about this in-person program, please visit MiamiBookFair.com. In Jonathan Escoffery’s If I Survive You: Stories, Topper, Sanya, and their two children flee to Miami in the 1970s to escape the political violence of their native Kingston, Jamaica. But America is hardly the promised land. The linked stories center …
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This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For more information about this in-person program, please visit MiamiBookFair.com. In Scott Turow’s Suspect: A Thriller, three male police officers accuse Lucia Gomez, the police chief in the city of Highland Isle, of soliciting sex for promotions. She insists the accusations are designed to destroy her career and empower her enemies, …
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Writers and illustrators from Cuba, Puerto-Rico, and Haiti put forth visions for a more expansive future in Caribbean literature for young readers. With Terry Catasús Jennings and Raúl Colón (Cuba) on The Little House of Hope, Lesléa Newman and Elizabeth Baez (Puerto Rico) on Alicia and The Hurricane: A Story of Puerto Rico/Alicia Y El …
This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For more information about this in-person program, please visit MiamiBookFair.com. Jonathan Evison’s Small World: A Novel is set against such iconic backdrops as the California gold rush, the development of the transcontinental railroad, and a speeding train of modern-day strangers forced together by fate. In exploring their lives and those of …
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Caribbean writers explore the dichotomies that permeate life in the Caribbean, a place that is vibrant and joyous but also riddled with corruption and violence. They discuss the fascinating traditions and values that bind Caribbean people, but also the literal and metaphorical walls that divide them and the struggle to overcome the consequences imposed by …
Four Caribbean writers discuss the unreality of reality and the truth of the fantastic in their work. Jasmine Sealy (Barbados) on The Island of Forgetting, Opal Palmer Adisa (Jamaica) on The Storyteller’s Return: Story Poems, and Ayanna Lloyd Banwo (Trinidad) on When We Were Birds: A Novel. Moderating is Myriam J. A. Chancy (Haiti), author …
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This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For more information about this in-person program, please visit MiamiBookFair.com. The National Book Foundation presents the 2022 National Book Award longlisters, finalists, and winners, in an annual super-sized showcase of readings and conversation, moderated by Ruth Dickey, executive director of the National Book Foundation. Featuring Fatimah Asghar, Derrick Barnes, Isaac Blum, …
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Michelle Huneven’s Search: A Novel follows Dana, restaurant critic, food writer, and member of a progressive Unitarian Universalist church in Southern California, as she writes a memoir-with-recipes about her work on the committee tasked with finding a new minister for the congregation – a search that boils down a stark choice between two very different …
Julia Armfield’s Our Wives Under the Sea: A Novel follows marine biologist Leah, who left for a routine expedition months earlier, only this time, her submarine sank to the sea floor. Now Leah is changed. When she finally surfaces and returns home, her wife, Miri, knows something is wrong. Barely eating and lost in her …
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