TODAY—June 7, 2022—the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Pageant (BCLF) presents Elizabeth Nunez, who will probably be in dialog with educator Crystal Bobb-Semple for the celebration of her new novel, Now Lila Is aware of, which will probably be launched on the identical date. This occasion takes place at 7:00pm (EST) on-line and in individual on the Heart for Fiction. The BCLF Crew writes:
Elizabeth Nunez holds a particular place within the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Pageant’s ethos, outlook, inspiration and work. She is THE quintessential Caribbean-American author.
Regardless of her many, many accolades and writing awards, Dr. Nunez stays accessible, form and supportive of our mission to showcase, uplift and set up Caribbean literature as a noteworthy style and to champion New York Metropolis’s rightful place as a cradle and crucible of Caribbean-American literary thought, concepts, expression and scholarship. The narrative of the one who lives on the island of the hyphen between Caribbean and American is not any much less precious than the Caribbean author elsewhere within the diaspora.
Description: Lila Bonnard has left her island dwelling within the Caribbean to affix the school as a visiting professor at Mayfield School in a small Vermont city. On her approach from the airport to Mayfield, Lila witnesses the deadly capturing of a Black man by the police. It seems that the sufferer was a professor at Mayfield and was giving CPR to a white lady who was on the verge of an opioid overdose.
The 2 Black college and a Black administrator within the in any other case all-white school count on Lila to be a witness within the case towards the police. Sadly, Lila fears that within the present hostile political local weather towards immigrants of colour she might jeopardize her place on the school by talking out, and her fiancé advises her to stay impartial.
Now Lila Is aware of is a gripping story that explores our obligation to behave when confronted with the unfair remedy of fellow human beings. A page-turner with common resonance, this novel will depart readers rethinking the that means of affection and empathy.
For extra info and to register for this occasion, go to https://centerforfiction.org/occasion/elizabeth-nunez-on-now-lila-knows-with-crystal-bobb-semple/