Hurston Wright Reading with Elizabeth Nunez and W. Ralph Eubanks
Date and Time
Aug 10, 2016 6:30 pm
Location
Takoma
235 Carroll St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20012
Aug 10, 2016 6:30 pm
Takoma
Politics & Prose at Busboys and Poets Takoma presents a Hurston Wrigth Reading welcoming Elizabeth Nunez for her book "Even in Paradise" and W. Ralph Eubanks for his book "The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South."
Nunez won the 2015 Hurston/Wright Award for nonfiction for her memoir, Not for Everyday Use, in which she recounts her mother’s death and her own return to Trinidad. She movingly details her struggle to understand her confusing response to her past, working through mingled love and frustration at parents who internalized colonialist structures, including strict gender roles and the Catholic Church’s uncompromising stand on obedience and birth control. Nunez has also written nine novels, most recently Even in Paradise, as well as critical and personal essays. She is a distinguished professor at Hunter College, where she teaches fiction writing, and she co-founded and served as director of the National Black Writers Conference.
In this powerful family memoir, sequel to Ever is a Long Time, Eubanks charts the nation’s complicated ideas of race through three generations of his own family. Descended from an interracial couple who risked their lives to marry in Alabama in 1914, Eubanks follows the various social, economic, and personal reverberations of that defiant match and the challenges and blessings of a mixed racial identity. Currently the Eudora Welty Visiting Scholar in Southern Studies at Millsaps College, Eubanks is former editor of The Virginia Quarterly Review and has been both a Guggenheim and a New America fellow. He has contributed to publications including The Washington Post, The American Scholar, and The Chicago Tribune.
