Authors Louis Chude-Sokei (Floating in a Most Peculiar Way) and Nadia Owusu (Aftershocks) discuss their memoirs, extraordinary stories that trace the authors’ lives through entangled relationships with loved ones across landscapes and cultures in Africa and America. Each author has worked to build and recognize their own identities, writing their own stories to determine where they belong and what belonging even means for a member of the African diaspora in America.

As part of the all-virtual 2021 Virginia Festival of the Book, this event is FREE to attend and open to the public. To attend, please register here or simply make plans to watch on Facebook.com/VaBookFest.

Co-sponsored by the Women's Center and the Carter G. Woodson Institute