BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//sebbo.net//ical-generator//EN NAME:Hoover Public Library X-WR-CALNAME:Hoover Public Library BEGIN:VEVENT UID:fe2cf031-38ec-463b-adc8-cb97f1f7283f SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261013T171041Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231219T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231219T203000 SUMMARY:Stories of Exile Presents LOCATION:Hoover Public Library\nHoover Public Library X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Hoover Public Library;X-AP PLE-RADIUS=10;X-TITLE=Hoover Public Library:geo:33.3879503,-86.8046606 GEO:33.3879503;-86.8046606 DESCRIPTION:Authors discuss the writing of African Town..\nhttps://hoover. libnet.info/event/9232018 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The last book in the Stories of Exile Book Club series is \;African Town\, a story about the journey of 110 captured Africans brought to Mobile\, Alabama\, on the last slave shi p\, \;Clotilde. Enjoy an evening in discussion with authors I rene Latham and Charles Waters as they share the inspiration for their you ng-adult novel-in-verse\, and talk about the incredible writing journey th at brought them face-to-face with the living descendants of those 110 exil es. \; \;

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This workshop is part of the ongoing "Stories of Exile" program series. The Yiddish Book Center&rsquo\;s &ldquo\;Stories o f Exile&rdquo\; Reading Groups for Public Libraries is a reading and discu ssion program to engage teens and adults in thinking about experiences of displacement\, migration\, and diaspora. In this program\, librarians orga nize reading groups to discuss three books of Yiddish literature in transl ation\, and one book related to the experience of a community served by th eir library.

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Live-stream this event on the Hoover Library \;Facebook \;an d YouTube page s.

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