About this Event
Join I AM CARIBBEING + Zibby’s Books, Donna Hemans, author of “The House of Plain Truth” for a Tea Party + Book Reading. Pull up for the 411 on the author’s creative process, what parts of her real life inspired her book, and more!
ABOUT THE HOUSE OF PLAIN TRUTH:
A lyrical, lush, evocative story about a fractured Jamaican family and a daughter determined to reclaim her home.
With news of her father’s passing, Pearline abruptly leaves her daughter and grandchildren behind in Brooklyn to return to her childhood home in Jamaica. But Pearline isn’t prepared for her father’s puzzling deathbed wish that she find her siblings—whom she hasn’t seen in 60 years—and discover the secret that tore her family apart.
Moving through time and place, from Cuba to Montego Bay and from Flatbush to Havana, The House of Plain Truth traces Pearline’s reconciliation of what she thought she knew about her family and the truth of their origin.
Inspired by the author's own family story, this delicate, incisive novel explores the divided loyalties within a family, the true meaning of home, and what one woman must sacrifice to finally get what she wants.
Presented in Partnership with Zibby Books.
Little Caribbean Refreshments will be served + ? Books available for purchase!
ABOUT DONNA HEMANS:
Donna Hemans is the author of two previous novels, River Woman and Tea By the Sea, which won the Lignum Vitae Una Marson Award. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in Electric Literature, Ms. Magazine, and Crab Orchard Review, among others. She is also the owner of DC Writers Room, a co-working studio for writers based in Washington, DC. Born in Jamaica, she lives in Maryland, and received her undergraduate degree in English and Media Studies from Fordham University and an MFA from American University.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
1399 Nostrand Ave., Brooklyn, NY, USA, United States
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