In Community with Black-Owned Bookstores: Author Talk, Tembe Benton Hurst and Miabelle.
Mon, May 15
|Zoom.
Join us for what promises to be a deep and powerful discussion with debut author Tembe Denton Hurst and Miabelle of Hot 97.


Time & Location
May 15, 2023, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Zoom.
About the Event
About the Book:
A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, them, Bustle, and The Millions.
Urgent, propulsive, and strikingly insightful, Homebodies is a thrilling debut novel about a young Black writer whose world is turned upside down when she loses her coveted job in media and pens a searing manifesto about racism in the industry.
Mickey Hayward dreams of writing stories that matter. She has a flashy media job that makes her feel successful and a devoted girlfriend who takes care of her when she comes home exhausted and demoralized. It’s not all A-list parties and steamy romance, but Mickey’s on her way, and it’s far from the messy life she left behind in Maryland. Despite being overlooked and mistreated at work, it seems like she might finally get the chance to prove herself—until she finds out she’s being replaced.
Distraught and enraged, Mickey fires back…