About this Event
While the DJ's spinnin' a tune as the old folks dance at your family reunion - Fresh Prince
Award-winning writer and professor, Kiese Laymon joins us for a discussion about the importance of connecting with our family and how transformative it can be to spend a summer down South (or up North).
Kiese will be joined in conversation by Marc Lamont Hill. Come through for this amazing talk and then read or gift this book to that next generation of siblings and cousins.
All copies of City Summer, Country Summer will be signed.
See you there!
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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.
On the ground of that garden, covered in vegetables and dirt, coated in laughter, I want to say that the Mississippi and New York in our Black boy bodies were indistinguishable.
Three Black boys spend one special summer exploring the Mississippi woods and 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 by award-winning author Kiese Laymon and deeply evocative illustrations by Ashley Franklin, City Summer, Country Summer illuminates the tenuous and tender bonds of friendship Black boys forge with one another.
About the author:
Kiese Laymon is a Black Southern writer from Jackson, Mississippi. He is the author of the novel Long Division, the essay collection How to Slowly K*ll Yourself and Others in America, and the award winning Heavy: An American Memoir. Laymon, named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow in 2022, is the Moody Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rice University. Visit him online at KieseLaymon.com.
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Doors open at 6:00pm.
Buy your book now and save on the General Admission fee!
All tickets are non-refundable.
Street parking available. Wheelchair accessible entrance also available through the rear parking lot.
Children older than 5-years old need a ticket for entry.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
First United Methodist Church of Germantown, 6001 Germantown Ave, Philadelphia, United States
USD 11.43 to USD 25.30
