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Author Reading: NoViolet Bulawayo

The Palo Alto Library and the Midpeninsula Community Media
Center present acclaimed author, NoViolet Bulawayo, on Thursday, May 8, at 7
PM, at the Palo Alto Lucie Stern Community Center (1305 Middlefield Rd.).  A current Wallace Stegner Fellow at
Stanford, Ms. Bulawayo will read from her debut novel, “We Need New Names,” the
story of children in a shantytown in Zimbabwe, and the immigration experience
of one of the group who goes to live with relatives in Michigan.  The book was named by both the New York
Times and NPR as a “2013 Notable Book” and it was shortlisted for the Man
Booker Prize.



The event is free but an RSVP is requested at: http://califa.evanced.info/paloalto/lib/eventsignup.asp?ID=6835



There are two follow-up book discussions of “We Need New
Names.”  One will be moderated by
Palo Alto librarian Laurie Hastings on June 4 at the Lucie Stern Community
Center at 7 PM in the Fireside Room. 
RSVP at: http://califa.evanced.info/paloalto/lib/eventsignup.asp?ID=6855

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The other is an online discussion at: http://madeintoamerica.org/forums/forum/made-america-forum/



The Media Center has been
collecting immigration stories as part of a project called “Made Into America”
featuring an archive at http://madeintoamerica.org.  The project is supported by the Silicon
Valley Community Foundation.  The
event is also made possible by the Friends of the Palo Alto Library. 

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