Politics & Prose at Busboys and Poets 14th & V welcomes Karin Tanabe to present the new book "The Gilded Years."
A Politico journalist turned novelist, Tanabe has reported on politics and society for Entertainment Tonight, CNN, and Inside Edition, experience she drew on for the Washington insider fiction of The List and The Price of Inheritance. Her third novel looks at class, race, and ambition in the Gilded Age, following smart and talented Anita Hemmings—daughter of a janitor—as she realizes her dream of attending Vassar. But Anita is also the descendent of slaves, and though her pale skin allows her to “pass†for white, as she moves among the wealthy elite of 1897 high society, she walks an increasingly tense line concerning her identity.
Tanabe will be in conversation with LaFleur Paysour, communications director for the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
