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LiteraryLectures & Talks

Edwidge Danticat and Robin Coste Lewis

Monday, September 9, 2024 7:00 PM
  • Mark Taper Auditorium - L.A. Central Library, 630 W. 5th St., Downtown L.A.
FREE WITH RESERVATION
A collage of three images: Edwidge Danticat, the book cover for 'We're Alone' and Robin Coste Lewis.
(Courtesy ALOUD, a program of the Library Foundation of Los Angeles)

Haitian-American novelist Edwidge Danticat, the American Book Award and National Book Critic Circle Award winner, joins former L.A. poet laureate Robin Coste Lewis to delve into her new collection of essays, We're Alone, which explores themes such as environmental catastrophe, the traumas of colonialism, and resilience.