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SUMMARY:An Evening With Best Selling Author Kiese Laymon - City Summer\, Country Summer
DESCRIPTION:MacArthur Genius Grant Honoree and Children’s Book Author Kiese Laymon Visits Beaufort on July 24 \nThe Storybook Shoppe children’s bookstore will host award-winning author Kiese Laymon for an evening of stories on Thursday\, July 24\, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.\, at Robert Smalls Leadership Academy (43 W. Alston Dr.\, Beaufort). This free program for families will include a writing opportunity inspired by our lowcountry summers as well as discussion of Laymon’s debut picture book City Summer\, Country Summer in conversation with local students E Achurch and Emily Alaia from DAYLO (Diversity Awareness Youth Literacy Organization). Books will be available for sale and signing. This special event is a community collaboration between the Storybook Shoppe\, Robert Smalls Leadership Academy\, DAYLO\, and the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center.\n\nABOUT THE BOOKCity Summer\, Country Summer is a lyrical and evocative picture book that captures the transformative power of friendship. The story of three Black boys as they embark on a lifechanging summer. The boys spend one special summer exploring the Mississippi woods—and the woulds and coulds of sharing the kind of freeing friendship that is love. Watched over and given space to discover by Grandmama and Mama Lara\, New York\, Country\, and little C find camaraderie in their contrasts and all the unspoken things between them while playing games of Marco Polo in the thick garden and sledding on cardboard by the underpass. With text brimming with love City Summer\, Country Summer illustrates the tenuous bonds of friendship Black boys forge with one another.\n“A heartfelt\, elegantly wrought\, and triumphant tribute to Black boy kinship. On the sunny porches of their grandmothers’ neighboring houses and in the cool shadows of the surrounding woods\, hesitation becomes tenderness\, anxiety becomes laughter\, and difference becomes safeness.”—Kirkus Reviews\, starred review\n“Laymon’s text is lyrical and specific…Franklin’s digital illustrations…clearly centers each emotion the boys experience…deeply moving…reveling as it does in the tender bonds of Black boy friendship.”—The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books\n\nABOUT THE AUTHORKiese Laymon is a Black Southern writer from Jackson\, Mississippi. Laymon is also the author of the genre-bending novel Long Division and the bestselling memoir Heavy: An American Memoir\, winner of the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction\, the 2018 Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose\, the Austen Riggs Erikson Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media\, and named one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years by The New York Times. He was also the recipient of the 2020-2021 Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard and a MacArthur Genius grant. He currently teaches English and creative writing at Rice University.\n\nABOUT THE INTERVIEWERSE Achurch is founding president of the DAYLO chapter at The Complete Student and Emily Alaia is president of the Battery Creek High School chapter of DAYLO. Both are rising juniors.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/an-evening-with-best-selling-author-kiese-laymon-city-summer-country-summer/
LOCATION:Robert Smalls Leadership Academy\, 43 W. K. Alston Drive\, Beaufort\, 29906\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Signing,Center Event
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