Glory Edim with Safiya Sinclair - Gather Me
Sat, Nov 8 at 7pm
Glory Edim, founder of the renowned book club Well-Read Black Girl, which reaches a community of half a million readers dedicated to celebrating the written work of Black women, joins us to discuss her latest book, Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise Of The Books That Saved Me.
The memoir is a dramatic and intricate portrait of family, community, and resilience, and an ode to the power of books to help us understand ourselves. Glory Edim grew up in Virginia to Nigerian parents. She will be in conversation with award-winning Jamaican poet and author of the acclaimed memoir How To Say Babylon, Safiya Sinclair.
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