For Our First Fall Meeting...

... on September 17, 2011, the novel we'll read is Blonde Roots, by the British writer Bernardine Evaristo. For a sneak preview---in the author's own voice---go here: http://www.spokenword.org/program/1108012

She appeared on the Book Slam Podcast three years ago (this is where I heard of the book). Click on the blue Book Slam icon. You'll have to listen to approximately two-and-a-half minutes of nonsense by the two hosts, but Evaristo begins reading an excerpt from Blonde Roots about 2:30 in....

I'm writing this from Trinidad. I'll be headed to Cuba when you guys meet. Have a good meeting discussing Thomas Sowell's Black Rednecks and White Liberals on Saturday, May 21st, and remember that even though you'll meet on campus at our usual place at 5 p.m., Aubrey Pettaway will then lead you to the meeting place. So being on time would seem to be important, because if not you won't know where to go...