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Jamaica Kincaid at the Cambridge Public Library
presenting
An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children
in conversation with KALYANI SAXENA
DateMay
9
Thursday
May 9, 2024 6:00 PM ET (Doors at 5:30) |
LocationCambridge Public Library
449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Tickets
$0.00 (Free RSVP Required)
$28.69 (book included)
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Harvard Book Store and the Cambridge Public Library welcome JAMAICA KINCAID—Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University and award-winning author of A Small Place, Annie John, and Lucy—for a discussion of her new book An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children. She will be joined in conversation by KALYANI SAXENA—associate producer for WBUR's Here & Now.
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About An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children
In this hard-hitting, witty, deeply original book, the renowned novelist Jamaica Kincaid offers an ABC of the plants that define our world and reveals the often brutal history of colonialism behind them.
Kara Walker, one of America's greatest visual artists, illustrates each entry with provocative, brilliant, enthralling, multilayered watercolors.
There has never been a book like An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children—inventive, surprising, and telling—about what our gardens reveal about the truth of history.
Praise for An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children
"[Kincaid] writes like an angel: with enviable lucidity...and a lyric touch that frequently aspires to the condition of poetry.” —The Boston Globe
"[Walker is] one of the fundamental contemporary investigators of the American psyche." —Siddhartha Mitter, The New York Times
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