When: Sunday, Sept. 24, 2006, 4 p.m.
Where: Baton Rouge Gallery, 1442 City Park, Baton Rouge
Cost: Free
Age limit: All ages
Categories: Literary
Description: Award-winning author, Tamika Edwards Raby will be reading at Sundays@4 at Baton Rouge Gallery from her novel Backwaters on September 24, 2006.
Backwaters, set around the Great Flood of 1927, is a psychologically complex story of Acanthus Fountainbleu and his relationship with his mother. The inability to overcome grief and the quest for love are the driving forces in the main characters life. The power of the supernatural, gender roles and race tension are also threaded into the tale as is travels between 1917 and 1937.
Released in August 2005, Backwaters’ debut chillingly coincided with the disastrous hurricane season. The story accounts the physical and emotional devastation of the Great Flood in southern Louisiana. The detail of those challenges hauntingly parallels the same perils facing the area today. Poignant and original, Edwards blends eloquent description with the rawness of colloquial speak. The combination is a voice that rings with talent and truth.
Edwards is the recipient of the Michael E. Wilson Memorial Scholarship for Creative Writing and the Lillian Hellman Award for playwriting among other honors. She graduated from LSU with a MFA in Creative Writing and currently works with the Louisiana Office of Cultural Development.
Baton Rouge Gallery’s Sundays@4 is free and open to the public.
Event posted Aug. 11, 2006
Last updated Aug. 11, 2006
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