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Two terrific younger writers based in New York, both published by Graywolf Press, read here this evening through some fortuitous coincidences in travel plans. Jessica Kane follows a debut book of stories, Bending Heaven, with an evocative first novel set in London during World War II, The Report. "An absorbing, thought-provoking first novel about a terrible civilian tragedy during wartime, The Report manages the delicate literary feat of being both a probing historical inquiry into a disaster, and a moving, multi-faceted portrait of a community under extreme duress ... the book's moral complexities linger long after the book is finished. A memorable debut." – John Burnham Schwartz. Originally from St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, Tiphanie Yanique draws from island life for her engaging debut book of stories, How to Escape from a Leper Colony. "In this Widest of Sargasso Seas Tiphanie Yanique gives us the pan-Caribbean, from the old lepers' colony on Chacachacare, off the coast of Trinidad, to St. John, Accra, and London. It's an astonishing debut collection—as brutal, sexual, magical, and seductively disturbing as if Jean Rhys had written it today." – Robert Antoni. "Let us hail this new literary voice, vibrant, humorous, original and powerful. These stories introduce us to a new world free of the old images and too familiar clichés of the Caribbean." – Maryse Condé. This reading is presented as part of National Book Group Week.
