Summary
Join us for the Brown Club of Miami-hosted installment of the One Book | One Bear series on February 23, 2023, featuring Edwidge Danticat '93 MFA and her book, Everything Inside: Stories, a National Book Critics Circle Award Winner, summarized by Vanity Fair as "Unforgettable tales of families and lovers—from Haiti to Miami, Brooklyn, and beyond—often struggling with grief, loss, and missed connections.”
The conversation will be moderated by author Evelina Galang.
This hybrid event will bring together guests in person at Books & Books starting at 6 PM with a social hour with light refreshments and both in person and online via Zoom at 7 PM with a conversation with the author. If you are Miami-based, we encourage you to join us in person. Whether you have read the book or not, the event promises to unite Brunonians for a lively conversation about Everything Inside.
GLOBAL VIRTUAL START TIME: 7 PM
The event will be hosted via Zoom for our global network of alumni and friends starting at 7 p.m. EST.
Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83504191951?pwd=SU12cWxnemhzUHZqcktteGpickdmUT09
Meeting ID: 835 0419 1951
Passcode: 825896
MIAMI IN-PERSON START TIME: 6 PM
The Brown Club of Miami will host an in-person group with light refreshments at Books & Books in Coral Gables at 6 p.m.
PARTNERS
We are thrilled to partner with the Brown Women's Network as co-sponsors for this talk, in addition to the co-organizing alumni clubs behind the full series (BCDC and the Brown Clubs of Georgia, Greater San Francisco, Miami, and Rhode Island), and Brown's Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice.
Schedule
| Time (EST) | Available To Virtual Guests | Description |
| 6 PM | No | We will host an in-person group with light refreshments at Books & Books in Coral Gables at 6 PM for registrants that paid for the in-person tier. |
| 7 PM | Yes | For virtual guests, we'll host a Zoom for our global network of alumni and friends while we conference the in-person book club presentation. |
About the Author
Edwidge Danticat '93 MFA is the author of numerous books, including The Art of Death, a National Book Critics Circle finalist; Claire of the Sea Light, a New York Times Notable Book; Brother, I'm Dying, a National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist; The Dew Breaker, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and winner of the inaugural Story Prize; The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner; Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah's Book Club selection; and Krik? Krak!, also a National Book Award finalist.
A 2018 Neustadt International Prize for Literature winner, and the recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" Grant, she has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper's Magazine, and elsewhere.
Find her book available to purchase from Books & Books here.
About the Moderator
M. Evelina Galang is the author of the story collection Her Wild American Self (Coffee House Press, 1996), novels One Tribe (New Issues Press, 2006) and Angel De La Luna and the Fifth Glorious Mystery (Coffee House Press, 2013), the nonfiction work Lolas’ House: Filipino Women Living With War (Curbstone Books, 2017), and the editor of Screaming Monkeys: Critiques of Asian American Images (Coffee House Press, 2003).
Among her numerous awards are the 2004 Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Prize for the Novel, the 2007 Global Filipino Literary Award for ONE TRIBE, the 2004 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Awards Advancing Human Rights, and a 2002 Senior Research Fellowship from Fulbright. In the spring of 2020, Galang was named Cornell University’s Zalaznick Distinguished Visiting Writer. She directed the MFA Creative Writing Program at the University of Miami from 2009-2019. She now teaches for the University of Miami Creative Writing Program and is core faculty and President of the Board of Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA/Voices).
About the One Bear | One Book Series
The One Bear | One Book program seeks to connect alums in a global book club where all are encouraged to read and discuss a selected title at the same time. The first season of books has been nominated by The Brown Club of Greater San Francisco, the Brown Club of Georgia, the Brown Club of Washington DC, the Brown Club of Miami, and the Center for Slavery and Justice at Brown. Each Club nominated a book that captures the zeitgeist of their region, a title they would tell a fellow alum: “You gotta read this.”
Upcoming Books in the One Bear | One Book Series
Brown Club of Rhode Island | The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by HP Lovecraft | March 2023
Center for Slavery and Justice at Brown | Slavery & Justice Report 2nd Edition | April 2023
Past Books in the One Bear | One Book Series
Brown Club of D.C.: Olga Dies Dreaming, the debut novel by Xochitl Gonzalez '99
Brown Club of Greater San Francisco: The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water & Dust Across California by Mark Arax
Brown Club of Georgia: White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism by Kevin Kruse