About this Event
Moderating this discussion is award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson. This event will be hosted in the Strand Book Store's 3rd floor Rare Book Room at 828 Broadway on 12th Street.
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After her mother is sentenced to life in a hilltop Pr*son, Suzanna vows to visit her on the hill forever. An unexpectedly funny and deeply moving novel about the many ways we punish and return to each other.
Suzanna Klein was a baby when her mother got up early one morning to rob a bank with a group of fellow radicals. Now, every Saturday, Suzanna lines up at the Pr*son gates along with the other visiting children, each one dressed as if for celebration. Inside the gates are a nursery and a cemetery, watchful guards and distractible nuns, women counting down to release and women like Suzanna’s mother, who will never be released.
Suzanna is raised by her grandmother, who is entirely unforgiving of her daughter’s crime and refuses to visit the Pr*son. Her grandmother’s friends know one another from their years in the Communist Party and still spend extended cocktail hours debating the Hitler–Stalin Pact. Though these women once insisted on changing the world, they are torn between teaching Suzanna how the world works and shielding her from it.
Suzanna vows to return to the Pr*son forever, but her mother wants her to be free. Harriet Clark’s The Hill is an incandescent novel of a child growing up between worlds, the last of three generations whose fates have been tied to punishment. It is the story of a family broken apart by the desire for change, told with irreverent wisdom and visionary force. The Hill brings new music to American fiction.
Harriet Clark is a winner of The Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize for her short story, “Descent,” and has received fellowships from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the Wallace Stegner Program. The Hill is her debut novel.
Jacqueline Woodson is the author of forty books for young people and adults. Her awards include a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a MacArthur “Genius” Award, the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, three NAACP Image Awards and the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. She has served as the Library of Congress’ National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature as well as the Young People’s Poet Laureate. In 2014, she received the National Book Award for her New York Times bestselling memoir, Brown Girl Dreaming. Her books for adults include Red at the Bone, a New York Times bestseller, and Another Brooklyn, a 2016 National Book Award finalist. In 2018, she founded BALDWIN FOR THE ARTS, a residency serving writers, composers, interdisciplinary, and visual artists of the Global Majority. Her most recent novel, Remember Us, is set in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Strand Book Store, 828 Broadway, New York, United States
USD 13.61 to USD 34.51
