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An Evening With Edwidge Danticat: a benefit to move, re-launch and save Revolution Books
An Evening With Edwidge Danticat: a benefit to move, re-launch and save Revolution Books
Reading, discussion and Q&A with the author of the novel Claire of the Sea Light,and other books including The Dew Breaker; Brother I'm Dying; Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work; and The Farming of Bones (American Book Award winner).
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About Claire of the Sea Light
"Fiercely beautiful. . . . Brims with enchantments and surprises." Los Angeles Times
"Hypnotic. . . . Danticat creates rich and varied interior lives for her characters. . . . Heartbreaking." The New York Times Book Review
"A revealing portrait that mixes a touch of magic with the tough reality of life in Haiti." NPR
"Haunting. . . . Writing with lyrical economy and precision, Ms. Danticat recounts her characters' stories in crystalline prose that underscores the parallels in their lives." The New York Times
"The biggest questions of life flow from the pen of this brilliant novelist. In Claire of the Sea Light, Danticat folds the story into a package so preciously tight that we can tuck it in our hearts and keep it close and warm." Nikki Giovanni
What people say about Revolution Books Berkeley
Revolution Books is a Berkeley institution, an institution of inspiration for generations of young rebels searching for ways to re-make society through the ideas of authors, writers and speakers from all over the world. Revolution Books is a place as well as an idea it occupies a space in the mind and heart it is also a place where the collective imagining of a better world exists in a tangible environment one can touch and see and hear and feel. Berkeley NEEDS Revolution Books, so that Berkeley can remain an outpost of revolutionary thought, of vision and practice of radical change that inspires the world to social justice.
-Rickey Vincent, PhD. Author of "Funk" and "Party Music: The Inside Story of the Black Panthers Band and How Black Power Transformed Soul Music"
Charleston, attacks on women, climate crisis...Times are changing and Revolution Books is needed more than ever. It's where people come for the books and engagement about why the world is as it is, and how it could be radically transformed through revolution - there is a way out!
Larry Everest, Revolution / revcom.us writer, author Oil, Power & Empire: Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda
Revolution Books is a Berkeley landmark, as much a part of our history as much as People's Park or Indian Rock. It's a place where progressive intellectuals meet to engage in the most important conversations of the day regarding social justice, feminism and religious oppression.
-Julia Scheeres, New York Times bestselling author of Jesus Land and A Thousand Lives: the Untold Story of Jonestown.
Revolution Books is a feminist friendly bookstore. I am grateful to Revolution Books not only for carrying important feminist works, but because they welcome and host controversial feminist events on some of the issues most critical to the liberation of women.
-Kathleen Barry, Ph.D., author of Unmaking War, Remaking Men
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-Robert Hass, English Professor at U.C. Berkeley and former U.S. Poet Laureate.
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