Monday, March 8, 7:30 PM
Tiphanie Yanique reads and dicusses How to Escape from a Leper Colony with Tayari Jones
Brooklynite Tiphanie Yanique was born in the Hospital Ground neighborhood of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, and now teaches at Drew University. Her debut work How To Escape from a Leper Colony, published as a paperback original, is a collection of stories and a short novel set in her native Virgin Islands. It's part oral history, part postcolonial narrative, and tells odd and magical stories that are both epic and intimate. Tiphanie discusses her work this evening with fellow Brooklyn author Tayari Jones, author of Leaving Atlanta and The Untelling. Jones has called Yanique “a writer to watch” and writes “Each of the stories contained in this gorgeous collection is clear-eyed, honest while still zinging with emotion. Tiphanie Yanique is blessed with an electric imagination, an expansive heart, and an unflinching gaze.”
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