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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Majestic Hills
DESCRIPTION:Book Talk: Majestic Hills \nJoin us as we celebrate bestselling author and journalist Dawn Turner’s fiction debut\, Majestic Hills!
URL:https://welcometohydepark.com/event/book-talk-majestic-hills/
LOCATION:Call and Response Books\, 1390 E. Hyde Park Blvd.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60615\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Literary/Book Signing/Storytime
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SUMMARY:Bloodfire\, Baby Book Talk & Signing - Call and Response Books
DESCRIPTION:Bloodfire\, Baby Book Talk & Signing – Call and Response Books \nJoin us on Tuesday\, March 10 at 7 PM as we welcome author Eirinie Carson to discuss her debut novel\, Bloodfire\, Baby—a haunting modern gothic exploration of motherhood! Eirinie will be in conversation with author and professor Dionne Irving. \nAbout the Book: \nBefore the shadow appeared\, Sofia thought mothering would be all sun-drenched light and white linen sheets\, as seen advertised by the momfluencers of Instagram. In her gorgeous home anchored in a posh suburb\, far removed from her origins\, Sofia revels in her success. \nMotherhood seems like the natural next step\, but when her husband travels for a work trip\, leaving Sofia all alone with their unnamed three-week-old baby\, she can’t quite square how mothering falls solely in her lap. Nobody seems able or willing to help her: not her husband\, not her best friend\, and certainly not the zealot mother she cut off long ago. \nHer postpartum reality is overtaken by an ominous figure. Sleep-deprivation collides with a darkness that creeps in and begins to spread\, threatening to consume her entirely. As her grip on reality slips away\, Sofia learns of an insidious haunting that has plagued the eldest daughters in her family for generations. With her baby’s safety on the line\, Sofia realizes she must confront her murky history or risk losing more than just the veneer of perfection. \nEirinie Carson is a member of the Writers Grotto in San Francisco and a frequent contributor to Mother magazine. Her work has also appeared in LitHub\, Notre Dame Review\, Mortal Mag\, Electric Literature\, The Sonora Review\, and others. Bloodfire\, Baby is her first novel.
URL:https://welcometohydepark.com/event/bloodfire-baby-book-talk-signing-call-and-response-books/
LOCATION:Call and Response Books\, 1390 E. Hyde Park Blvd.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60615\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Lecture/Literary/Book Signing/Storytime
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SUMMARY:Trivia Night - Call and Response Books
DESCRIPTION:Trivia Night – Call and Response Books \nThink you know it all? Put your knowledge to the test at our monthly trivia night! February’s trivia night will be on Friday\, February 27 at 7 PM—come with a team or ready to make new friends! Questions will span a variety of categories (but this is a bookstore\, so of course there will be a few book-related questions)! \nMasks Required
URL:https://welcometohydepark.com/event/trivia-night-call-and-response-books/
LOCATION:Call and Response Books\, 1390 E. Hyde Park Blvd.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60615\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Trivia
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SUMMARY:Canto-Kójo Open Mic - Call and Response Books
DESCRIPTION:Canto-Kójo Open Mic – Call and Response Books \nOur next Canto-Kójo open mic session is Tuesday\, February 24 at 7 PM\, hosted by our amazing friends I.S. Jones and Yazud Brito-Milan! \nIn Yorùbá\, the word “kójo” means “to gather”. In Spanish\, “canto” means “to sing.” In our efforts to gather community together\, we hope to make something new sing. \nRevel in the spoken and written word with us—bring a poem\, a song\, a short story\, anything that’s on your heart! All are welcome and encouraged regardless of experience levels! Featured reader to be announced shortly!
URL:https://welcometohydepark.com/event/canto-kojo-open-mic-call-and-response-books/
LOCATION:Call and Response Books\, 1390 E. Hyde Park Blvd.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60615\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Spoken Word/Poetry/Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Circulate - Call and Response Books
DESCRIPTION:Circulate – Call and Response Books \nThis month\, we’re love-bombing Call and Response Books in Hyde Park\, and the timing is intentional.\nThere’s a big box bookstore opening in HP this month\, and we’re diverting the attention from them back to the neighborhood bookstores we love.\nJoin us on February 22nd for CIRCULATE\, Chicago’s Small Shop Rent Party\, and spread the word to all the book lovers you know! \nCIRCULATE\nCall and Response Books\n1390 E 51st St. (entrance on Dorchester)\nFeb. 22 from 2 to 4 pm
URL:https://welcometohydepark.com/event/circulate-call-and-response-books/
LOCATION:Call and Response Books\, 1390 E. Hyde Park Blvd.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60615\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Shopping
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SUMMARY:February Book Club - Call and Response Books
DESCRIPTION:February Book Club – Call and Response Books \nThe votes are in! Our February book club pick is the postcolonial Sudanese classic Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih! We’ll meet on February 19 to discuss\, and you can grab a copy of this slim read here! Going forward\, all book club picks will be 10% off in-store and online for the month! RSVP at the link in bio! \nAbout the book \nAfter years of study in Europe\, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns to his village along the Nile in the Sudan. It is the 1960s\, and he is eager to make a contribution to the new postcolonial life of his country. Back home\, he discovers a stranger among the familiar faces of childhood—the enigmatic Mustafa Sa’eed. Mustafa takes the young man into his confidence\, telling him the story of his own years in London\, of his brilliant career as an economist\, and of the series of fraught and deadly relationships with European women that led to a terrible public reckoning and his return to his native land. \nBut what is the meaning of Mustafa’s shocking confession? Mustafa disappears without explanation\, leaving the young man—whom he has asked to look after his wife—in an unsettled and violent no-man’s-land between Europe and Africa\, tradition and innovation\, holiness and defilement\, and man and woman\, from which no one will escape unaltered or unharmed. \nSeason of Migration to the North is a rich and sensual work of deep honesty and incandescent lyricism. In 2001 it was selected by a panel of Arab writers and critics as the most important Arab novel of the twentieth century.
URL:https://welcometohydepark.com/event/february-book-club-call-and-response-books/
LOCATION:Call and Response Books\, 1390 E. Hyde Park Blvd.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60615\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Community
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