WALTER on Wednesday, July 30. The Clinton Presidential Center. 6 p.m. Free.
My grandmother, Lucille Hatch Eldridge, wrote letters to me for nearly the entire time that we shared the planet. In fact, I have few memories that come before my remembrance of receiving regular missives from Mama Ceal as we called her. Those sentences serve as a sturdy introduction to This Leaves Me Okay: Race, Legacy, and Letters From My Grandmother , a memoir published by Arkansas native Walter Pryor in May. Through the lens of Mama Ceal, a rural Arkansan born in the 1920s who received only an eighth-grade education, Pryor embarks on an interweaving of memory, story, and social commentary that s deftly achieved, according to author and former Georgia state Rep. Stacey Abrams, who will moderate a conversation about the book with Pryor at the Clinton Presidential Center. RSVP at clintonfoundation.org/events .
It’s dragon-slaying time!
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