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Kimberly Garrett Brown In-Person

October 1, 2022 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT

We’re delighted to welcome Kimberly Garrett Brown to FoxTale Book Shoppe with her novel, CORA’S KITCHEN. Please join us for a fun event.
To order: https://www.foxtalebookshoppe.com/…/kimberly-garrett…
It is 1928 and Cora James, a 35-year-old Black librarian who works at the 135th Street library in Harlem, writes Langston Hughes a letter after identifying with one of his poems. She even reveals her secret desire to write. Langston responds, encouraging Cora to enter a writing contest sponsored by the National Urban League, and ignites her dream of being a writer. Cora is frustrated with the writing process, and her willingness to help her cousin Agnes keep her job after she is brutally beaten by her husband lands Cora in a white woman’s kitchen working as a cook.
In the Fitzgerald home, Cora discovers she has time to write and brings her notebook to work. When she comforts Mrs. Fitzgerald after an argument with Mr. Fitzgerald, a friendship forms. Mrs. Fitzgerald insists Cora call her Eleanor and gives her The Awakening by Kate Chopin to read. Cora is inspired by the conversation to write a story and sends it to Langston. Eventually she begins to question her life and marriage and starts to write another story about a woman’s sense of self. Through a series of letters, and startling developments in her dealings with the white family, Cora’s journey to becoming a writer takes her to the brink of losing everything, including her life.

Details

Date:
October 1, 2022
Time:
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT
Event Category:
Website:
https://visitwoodstockga.com/event/kimberly-garrett-brown-in-person/

Venue

FoxTale Book Shoppe, 105 E Main St Ste 138, Woodstock, GA, 30188, United States

Organizer

FoxTale Book Shoppe
Email
karen@foxtalebookshoppe.com