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SUMMARY:Contemporary Conversations
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DESCRIPTION:Join a conversation between these two distinguished Haitian-Am
 erican Authors. .\nhttps://mcpl.libnet.info/event/4530838
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Danticat and Ulysse will converse about re
 levant current issues like diasporic literature\, the writing craft\, the 
 importance of people of color being represented in literature and the topi
 c of immigration/deportation.</p>\n<p>Award winning Edwidge Danticat is th
 e author of several books\, including Breath\, Eyes\, Memory\, an Oprah Bo
 ok Club selection\, Krik? Krak!\, a National Book Award finalist\, The Far
 ming of Bones\, The Dew Breaker\, Create Dangerously\, Claire of the Sea L
 ight\, and Everything Inside. &nbsp\;Her memoir\, Brother\, I'm Dying\, wa
 s a 2007 finalist for the National Book Award and a 2008 winner of the Nat
 ional Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. &nbsp\;Danticat is a 20
 09 MacArthur fellow\, a 2018 Ford Foundation &ldquo\;The Art of Change&rdq
 uo\; fellow\, and the winner of the 2018 Neustadt International Prize and 
 the 2019 St. Louis Literary Award.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Katia D. Ulysse is a fic
 tion writer whose short stories\, essays\, and pushcart-nominated poetry h
 ave appeared in numerous anthologies and literary journals. Her critically
 -acclaimed collection of short stories\,&nbsp\;Drifting\, portrays the rea
 l-life issues that plague immigrant families in the United States. Her nov
 el&nbsp\;Mouths Don&rsquo\;t Speak centers around the devastating earthqua
 ke that struck Haiti in 2010. Ulysse is an educator and advocate of immigr
 ant families in the Baltimore area.</p>\n<p>This program is co-sponsored b
 y the Friends of the Library\, Montgomery County.</p>\n<p><span style="col
 or: #ff0000\;"><strong>For security reasons\, this program session will be
  locked 5 minutes after it begins. Please log in promptly.</strong></span>
 </p>\n<p>Looking for works of Edwidge Danticat and Katia D. Ulysse?&nbsp\;
 Find their works on <a href="https://montgomerycountymd.libguides.com/elib
 rary">Hoopla and Overdrive</a> using your library card. Don't have a card 
 right now? No worries\, try our newly improved Digital Library card&nbsp\;
 <a href="https://mcpl.link/DigitalCard">https://mcpl.link/DigitalCard</a>&
 nbsp\;and you'll be ready to go in minutes. If you prefer books in print\,
  using our online catalog\, you can put print items on hold and schedule a
  Holds-to-Go appointment to pick the items up from an MCPL branch library 
 entrance.</p>\n<p style="border: 5px solid black\; padding: 50px\; backgro
 und-image: linear-gradient(to right\, #f1d45e\,#F2CD37\,#f1d45e)\;"><stron
 g>By joining this Virtual MCPL program\, you agree to abide by our&nbsp\;<
 a href="https://montgomerycountymd.gov/library/policies/behavior.html">rul
 es of conduct</a>.&nbsp\;Library staff has the authority to remove you fro
 m this program if we deem your behavior to be inappropriate\, to ensure th
 e safety of staff and customers.<br /><br /><a href="https://montgomerycou
 ntymd.gov/library/policies/zoom.html">Learn about MCPL's Zoom Security Set
 tings</a></strong></p>\nhttps://mcpl.libnet.info/event/4530838
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