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SUMMARY:Candice Iloh: Salt the Water w/ Ibi Zoboi & Mila Myles
DESCRIPTION:From Printz honoree and National Book Award finalist Candice Iloh (WFYP\, June 2017)\, a verse novel about Cerulean Gene\, a nonbinary Black teenager searching for a new way to do more than survive in post-pandemic America. \n\n\n\nCerulean and their friends went into senior year—the first year of normal school after the pandemic—with a plan: keep their heads down in class\, save money\, and get the hell out of the Bronx once they graduate. If teachers are going to force them to read Huckleberry Finn\, then they can’t blame kids for “lighting out for the territory.” Cerulean is convinced that there must be somewhere better than the Bronx and is focused on learning how to grow and make food so they can all be self-sufficient when they finally make their break. \n\n\n\nBurned-out teachers and their father’s badly timed workplace accident send Cerulean reeling off course\, but Bronx babies are resiliant and resourceful\, and Salt the Water is ultimately a radically hopeful vision of life beyond mere survival. \n\n\n\nThis event will be in-person and on YouTube Live. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCandice Iloh is a first-generation Nigerian American writer from the Midwest by way of Washington\, D.C. and Brooklyn\, New York whose books center home\, self-awareness\, and Black sustainability. They are a proud alumna of the Rhode Island Writers Colony and their work has earned fellowships from Lambda Literary\, VONA\, Kimbilio Fiction and a residency with Hi-ARTS\, where they debuted their first one-person show in 2018. Candice became a 2020 National Book Award Finalist and in 2021\, a Printz Award Honoree for their debut novel\, Every Body Looking. Break This House is their second novel. \n\n\n\nIbi Zoboi was born in Port-au-Prince\, Haiti\, and holds an MFA in writing for children and young adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her YA novel American Street was a National Book Award finalist and her debut middle grade novel\, My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich\, was a New York Times bestseller. She is the author of Pride\, a contemporary YA remix of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice\, and editor of the anthology\, Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America. Her most recent bestseller\, Punching the Air\, is a YA novel in verse\, co-authored by prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five. Raised in New York City\, Ibi now lives in New Jersey with her husband and their three children. \n\n\n\nMila Myles is a writer/comedian\, actor\, host and trans media specialist who resides and performs in both NY & LA. They have been featured on HBO\, Allure\, The New York Film Fest\, providence film fest\, NowThisNews and in Vogue online. Salt The Water is their first audiobook.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/candice-iloh-salt-the-water-w-ibi-zoboi-mila-myles/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Heights Branch\, 286 Cadman Plaza West\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11201\, United States
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