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Jabari Asim - A Taste of Honey

Start: 03/29/2010 7:00 pm

Poignant and powerful, this debut collection from preeminent writer and critic Jabari Asim heralds his arrival as an exciting new voice in African American fiction. Through a series of fictional episodes set against the backdrop of one of the most turbulent years in modern history, Asim brings into pin-sharp focus how the tumultuous events of '68 affected people's lives and shaped the country we live in today. The sixteen connected stories are set in the fictional midwestern town of Gateway City, where police brutality is on the rise, the civil rights movement gains momentum, and wars rage at home and abroad while the community stands on edge. Jabari Asim is the author of What Obama Means… For Our Culture, Our Politics, The N Word, and several books for children. He is also a scholar-in-residence at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and editor-in-chief of The Crisis, the magazine of the NAACP.