Margaret Wilkerson Sexton - A KIND OF FREEDOM - in conversation with Jami Attenberg

Please join us celebrating the paperback release of author Margaret Wilkerson Sexton's novel, A KIND OF FREEDOM, when she appears in conversation with Jami Attenberg.

“Brilliantly juxtaposing World War II, the ’80s and post-Katrina present, Sexton follows three generations of a black New Orleans family as they struggle to bloom amid the poison of racism.” —People

Evelyn is a Creole woman who comes of age in New Orleans at the height of World War II. In 1982, Evelyn’s daughter, Jackie, is a frazzled single mother grappling with her absent husband’s drug addiction. Jackie’s son, T.C., loves the creative process of growing marijuana more than the weed itself. He was a square before Hurricane Katrina, but the New Orleans he knew didn’t survive the storm. For Evelyn, Jim Crow is an ongoing reality, and in its wake new threats spring up to haunt her descendants. Margaret Wilkerson Sexton’s critically acclaimed debut is an urgent novel that explores the legacy of racial disparity in the South through a poignant and redemptive family history.

 

Margaret Sexton WilkersonBorn and raised in New Orleans, MARGARET WILKERSON SEXTON studied creative writing at Dartmouth College and law at UC Berkeley. She was a recipient of the Lombard Fellowship and spent a year in the Dominican Republic working for a civil rights organization and writing. Her debut novel, A Kind of Freedom, was long-listed for the National Book Award, and her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in The New York Times Book Review, Oprah.com, Lenny Letter, The Massachusetts Review, Grey Sparrow Journal, and other publications. She lives in the Bay Area, California, with her family.

JAMI ATTENBERG is the author of six books: Instant Love, The Kept Man, The Melting Season, New York Times bestseller The Middlesteins, Saint Mazie, and national bestseller All Grown Up, which was published in March 2017 in the US and the UK, and in Italy, Germany, France, Holland, Poland, Russia, China, the Czech Republic, Turkey, Portugal and Hungary in 2018.

 

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Thursday, August 30, 2018 - 6:00pm

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Octavia Books - 513 Octavia Street - New Orleans, LA 70115
A Kind of Freedom: A Novel By Margaret Wilkerson Sexton Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781640091030
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Counterpoint - August 14th, 2018

Longlisted for the National Book Award
A New York Times Notable Book

The moving, multi-generational debut novel from the author of
On the Rooftop, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick


All Grown Up By Jami Attenberg Cover Image
$14.99
ISBN: 9781328915320
Availability: Not in stock. Usually arrives in 2-5 Days
Published: Ecco - March 13th, 2018

A national bestseller from the New York Times best-selling author of The Middlesteins, All Grown Up is a wickedly funny novel about a thirty-nine-year-old single, childfree woman who defies convention as she seeks connection.

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