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Author Talk: The Benefits of Eating White Folks | Leslie T. Grover in conversation with Savannah Johnston

Thu, Apr 14

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The Sickness, a disease with unknown origins, is killing white children in the antebellum South, but Perpetua, a Black enslaved woman, is facing something much more devastating: Her daughter Meenie is missing. What she finds in her search for her child will change her life forever.

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Author Talk: The Benefits of Eating White Folks | Leslie T. Grover in conversation with Savannah Johnston
Author Talk: The Benefits of Eating White Folks | Leslie T. Grover in conversation with Savannah Johnston

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Apr 14, 2022, 7:00 PM EDT

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About the Event

By fusing the past and present with the power of prose and poetry, Leslie T. Grover poignantly explores the ripple effect of history and the nature of love and family and the ties that bind.

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Leslie T. Grover is a Black History writer and community scholar-activist. She is the founder of a small nonprofit, Assisi House, Inc., which uses the power of story to build the capacity of vulnerable communities. Her work in Narrative Medicine, social justice, and Black History has inspired this book. A native of Charleston, Mississippi, she is an unapologetic Black Southern woman, and this extends itself into her writing. Leslie’s work, which focuses on Black women characters, seeks to reveal the past in a way that honors art, the Black writing tradition, and her own deeply rural voice.

Savannah Johnston is a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Her work has appeared in Gulf Coast, HTMLgiant, and Gravel, among others. She lives in New York City. Her debut short story collection Rites:Stories was published in 2021 (Jaded Ibis Press).

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