Name: Kiese Laymon Event
Start: 2025-04-03T16:30:00-05:00
Location: Eudora Welty House & Garden

Join us for an event with author Kiese Laymon at The Eudora Welty House and Garden on Thursday, April 3rd at 4:30pm for the debut of his children's book CITY SUMMER, COUNTRY SUMMER!
About the book:
A lyrical picture book from the award-winning author of Heavy, about three Black boys who form a deep connection during a transformative summer trip down South to visit family.
Can't make it to the event?
Order your signed copy here:
https://www.lemuriabooks.com/City-Summer-Country-Summer-p/9780593405567.htm
Kiese Laymon is a Black Southern writer from Jackson, Mississippi. Laymon is the author of the genre-bending novel Long Division and the essay collection How to Slowly K*ll Yourself and Others in America. Laymon’s bestselling memoir, Heavy: An American Memoir, won 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 was 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.