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Thursday, February 8, 12PM
@ Temple Israel: Wolfson Auditorium
137 NE 19 Street Miami FL 33132
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For years now, Books & Books has been working closely with the Brickell Literary Society (BLS) to identify and bring to Miami a wealth of A-list authors who regale readers during a lunchtime keynote presentation at Temple Israel in downtown Miami. Members of BLS, are all passionately interested in literature and meet once a month to enjoy a delicious lunch, listen to an author that has been hand-picked by Mitchell Kaplan, and receive their signed copy of the author’s new book.
In February, BLS will proudly host Ayana Mathis, whose Twelve Tribes of Hattie, was a New York Times best seller and the second selection of Oprah’s Book Club 2.0. Mathis is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop and she’ll be speaking to us about her newest novel, The Unsettled (Knopf, $29) is a searing multi-generational novel – set in the 1980s in racially and politically turbulent Philadelphia about a mother fighting for her sanity and survival.
Michiko Kakutani compared Ayana Mathis to Toni Morrison and Louise Erdrich. Ron Charles compared her to John Updike and Marilynne Robinson. “Astonishingly powerful . . . Ms. Mathis gives us a haunting—and, yes, hopeful—glimpse of the possibility of redemption and the resilience of the human spirit.”—The New York Times
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Ayana Mathis is the author of THE TWELVE TRIBES OF HATTIE and most recently, THE UNSETTLED which was named a New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book of 2023, a best of 2023 by The New Yorker, Publisher’s Weekly, an Oprah Daily Best Novels of 2023, and a Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2023. The New York Times calls it, “Poignant, heartbreaking,” while The Minneapolis Star Tribune describes it as, “An ardent, ambitious, and carefully stitched tapestry of a novel, one that deserves and rewards our attention.”
Her work has been supported by the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and the Bogliasco Foundation. She was a 2020-2021 American Academy in Berlin Prize Fellow. Mathis received her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and went on to become the first African-American woman to serve as an Assistant Professor in that program. She currently teaches at Hunter College in the MFA Program. |
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