Motherhood & Laborious Times
Jennifer Coburn, Armando Lucas Correa and Sadeqa Johnson come to the festival with stories about mothers and mothers-to-be, each of whom must navigate particularly difficult circumstances -- from fraught race relations to world wars.
| Where: | Student Union Santa Rita (Seats 110)  |
| When: | Sat, Mar 4, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm |
| Signing area: | Sales & Signing Area - UA BookStore Tent (on Mall) (following presentation)
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| Genre: | Fiction / Literature |
| Moderator: | Ashley Hansen |
Panelists
Jennifer CoburnJennifer Coburn is the author of "Cradles of the Reich," a historical novel about three very different women living at a Nazi Lebensborn breeding home at the start of World War ll.
She has also published a mother-daughter travel memoir, "We'll Always Have Paris," as well as six contemporary women's novels....
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Armando Lucas CorreaArmando Lucas Correa is an award-winning journalist, editor, author and the recipient of several awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Publications....
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Sadeqa JohnsonSadeqa Johnson is the award-winning author of "And Then There Was Me," "Second House From the Corner," "Love in a Carry-on Bag" and "Yellow Wife." "Yellow Wife" is a 2022 Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy nominee, a BCLA Literary Honoree and a Barnes & Noble book club pick in paperback....
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Books:
Cradles of the Reich
A Novel
Jennifer Coburn
Fiction / Literature
Sourcebooks, Incorporated
January 2022
ISBN 9781728250748
320 pages
$27.99
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The Night Travelers
A Novel
Armando Lucas Correa
Fiction / Literature
Atria Books
January 2023
ISBN 9781501187988
368 pages
The House of Eve
Sadeqa Johnson
Fiction / Literature
Simon & Schuster
March 2023
ISBN 9781982197360
352 pages
From the award-winning author of Yellow Wife, a daring, beautiful, and redemptive novel that explores what it means to be a woman and a mother, and how much one is willing to sacrifice to achieve her greatest goal.
1950s Philadelphia: fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising a daughter. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed on to her like a birthright.
Eleanor Quarles arrives in Washington, DC, with ambition and secrets. When she meets the handsome William Pride at Howard University, they fall madly in love. But William hails from one of DC’s elite wealthy Black families, and his parents don’t let just anyone into their fold. Eleanor hopes that a baby will make her finally feel at home in William’s family and grant her the life she’s been searching for. But having a baby—and fitting in—is easier said than done.
With their stories colliding in the most unexpected of ways, Ruby and Eleanor will both make decisions that shape the trajectory of their lives. More/less
