MahoganyBooks is excited to kick off its monthly reading series with the inaugural event featuring acclaimed author, Danielle Evans. The book from which Danielle will be reading from is her debut collection of short stories, Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, which addresses what its like to be young and African-American or of mixed race in the modern world.
In recent reviews Time Magazine said “Danielle Evans’ blisteringly smart short stories offer fresh perspective on being young and black in America. From a vandalizing valedictorian to a rejected biracial child, her characters triumph by surviving without forgetting.” The Washington Post said “Fiercely independent, all of Evans’s characters struggle for a place in a world intent on fencing them out. But as her title suggests, the biggest obstacles they face are often their own selves.”
We invite you all to join us at this great community event to celebrate and discuss the great literary works of one of DC’s own, Danielle Evans. You can also join in on the discussion as we lead up to event at MahoganyBooks Presents: The Lit Lounge.
Books will be made available for purchase on site by MahoganyBooks; however, advance orders are available at a discounted price. Books not purchased from MahoganyBooks are prohibited. If you order your book in advance, please bring your MahoganyBooks sales receipt.
About the Event:
Betty’s Place & Cafe at the Prince George’s Sports & Learning Complex
8001 Sheriff Rd.
Landover, MD
January 14th, 2011
7:00 p.m.
About the Book:
This electric debut story collection focuses on African-American and mixed-race teens, women, and men struggling to find their place. Striking in their emotional immediacy, the tales are based in a world where insecurities of adolescence and young adulthood, and the tensions within family are the biggest complicating forces in one’s sense of identity and the choices one makes.
About the Author:
Danielle Evans is a fiction writer and professor of creative writing and literature. Her work has appeared in magazines including The Paris Review, A Public Space, Callaloo, and Phoebe, has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 2008, and is forthcoming in New Stories from the South and the Best American Short Stories 2010. Danielle received an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers Workshop, was a fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and is now teaching fiction at American University in Washington DC. Danielle is also currently at work on a novel titled The Empire Has No Clothe
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