Author Erik Mohn discusses Stranger in My Own Story with Tony Hynes
Date and Time
Oct 15, 2026 7:00 pm
Location
Brookland
625 Monroe St NE, Washington, District of Columbia, 20017
Oct 15, 2026 7:00 pm
Brookland
Author Erik Mohn discusses and celebrates the release of his debut memoir Stranger in My Own Story with writer Tony Hynes.
Erik Mohn was raised to believe that love was enough. America taught him otherwise. Born to a Black mother he never knew and adopted by a white family in small-town Massachusetts, Mohn grew up cherished yet unprepared for what his skin would mean in the world. Stranger in My Own Story traces Mohn’s coming of age as he searches not just for identity but for language. He pieces together meaning from what’s available and hip-hop becomes his first mirror and his first vocabulary.
Written with the lyrical pulse of hip-hop and a moral clarity forged in lived experience, this is an intimate memoir of transracial adoption and a universal story about what it costs to grow up without a mirror—and what it takes to build one anyway.
