We’re Alone

We're Alone Edwidge Danticat in conversation with Robin Coste Lewis
Monday, Sep 9, 2024 | 7:00pm Mark Taper Auditorium-Central Library

ALOUD welcomes American Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award winner Edwidge Danticat with her new collection of essays We’re Alone. Danticat will discuss her beautiful, varied, and complex collection with celebrated poet, writer, and former Poet Laureate of Los Angeles, Robin Coste Lewis.

We’re Alone includes personal narrative and reportage, and explores several abiding themes: environmental catastrophe, the traumas of colonialism, motherhood, and the complexities of resilience. “Powerful. . . . [Danticat] offers an elegant commentary on injustice and the mixed feelings one’s home can engender.” —Kirkus Reviews

 

 

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