Book Signings

Saturday, January 23, 2009
2:00 - 5:00 pm

Where I Must Go
by Angela Jackson

Lyrical, penetrating, and highly charged, this novel displays a delicately tuned sense of difference and belonging. Poet Angela Jackson brings her superb sense of language and of human possibility to the story of young Magdalena Grace, whose narration takes readers through both privilege and privation at the time of the American civil rights movement. The novel moves from the privileged yet racially exclusive atmosphere of the fictional Eden University to the black neighborhoods of a Midwestern city and to ancestral Mississippi. Magdalena’s story includes a wide range of characters—black and white, male and female, favored with opportunity or denied it, the young in love and elders wise with hope. With and through each other, they struggle to understand the history they are living and making. With dazzling perceptiveness, Jackson’s narrator Magdalena tells of the complex interactions of people around her who embody the personal and the political at a crucial moment in their own lives and in the making of America.

Please Note:
All books presented to the authors for signing, must be purchased from Azizi Books. If you cannot attend, we would be happy to allow you to purchase the book in advance, and we will get it signed for you.
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Events for Kids

Saturdays
11:00 am - 12:00 noon

It's Storytime at Azizi for Kids!

Join us every week on Saturdays for Storytime Hour featuring selections from our diverse Children's Books category. Children of all ages are welcome. Hope to see you there.