About this Event
Join us at the CCCADI Firehouse on February 11th for our first We Lit event of 2025, as we celebrate the launch of Ibi Zoboi’s contemporary fantasy debut novel: “(S)kin”. Ibi Zoboi will read from her novel, and then engage in conversation with author Leslie-Anne Murray, delving into themes present in the novel and across Zoboi’s work. (S)kin is a novel in verse based on Caribbean folklore- about the power of inherited magic and the price we must pay to live the life we yearn for.
Copies of “(S)kin ” will be available for purchase during the event.
February 11, 2025
6 - 8:00 PM
120 E 125th Street
NY, NY 10035
$10 Suggested Donation
We Lit is a CCCADI series dedicated to exploring authors of the African Diaspora who have beautifully woven their experiences, cultures, and dreams into their works. This series is a call to writers, griots, storytellers, and lovers of the written word to spark collective conservation, reflection, and celebration for African Diasporic literature.
Explore last season’s featured We Lit authors and content. www.cccadi.org/welit
About Ibi Zoboi
Ibi Zoboi is the New York Times bestselling author of American Street, a National Book Award finalist; Nigeria Jones, a Coretta Scott King Award winner; Pride; My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich; Okoye to the People: A Black Panther Novel for Marvel; and the Walter Award and LA Times Book Prize–winning Punching the Air, cowritten with Exonerated Five member Yusef Salaam. She is also a two-time Coretta Scott King Honor Award winner for her picture book The People Remember and her middle grade biography of Octavia Butler, Star Child. She is the editor of the anthology Black Enough. Born in Haiti and raised in New York City, she now lives in New Jersey with her family. You can find her online at ibizoboi.net.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, 120 East 125th Street, New York, United States
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