Join the free book reading of “Guidebook to Relative Strangers” on Tuesday, June 27th at City Lights Books in San Francisco, California at 7:00 pm.
An award-winning African American poet debuts in prose with a stunningly graceful and honest exploration of race, motherhood, and history.
About the book: “As a working mother whose livelihood as a poet-lecturer depended on travel, Camille Dungy crisscrossed America with her infant, then toddler, intensely aware of how they are seen, not just as mother and child, but as black women. With a poet’s eye, she celebrates her daughter’s acquisition of language and discoveries of the natural and human world around her. At the same time history shadows her steps everywhere she goes: from the San Francisco of settlers’ and investors’ dreams to the slave-trading ports of Ghana; from snow-white Maine to a festive, yet threatening, bonfire in the Virginia pinewoods.”
