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SUMMARY:"You Were Watching From the Sand" with Juliana Lamy
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation with Writer-in-Residence Juliana 
 Lamy about her debut book\, You Were Watching from the Sand\, a 
 stylistically and conceptually daring collection that winds from 
 fantastical horror to mischievous domestic realism and always keeps in its 
 sharp\, compassionate view the material\, spiritual\, and emotional lives 
 of Haitian people.\n\nPlayful\, kinetic\, and devastating in turn\, You 
 Were Watching from the Sand is a collection in which Haitian men\, women\, 
 and children who find their lives cleaved by the interminably strange bite 
 back at the bizarre with their own oddities. In “belly\,” a young woman 
 abandoned by her only living relative makes a person from the mud beside 
 her backyard creek. In “We Feel it in Punta Cana\,” a domestic child 
 servant in the Dominican Republic tours through his own lush imagination to 
 make his material conditions more bearable. In “The Oldest Sensation is 
 Anger\,” a teenager invites a same-aged family friend into her apartment 
 and uncovers a spate of disturbing secrets about her. Written in a mixture 
 of high lyricism\, absurdist comedy\, and Haitian cultural witticisms\, 
 this is a collection whose dynamism matches that of its characters at every 
 beat and turn.\n\nBook signing to follow.\n\nRegistration recommended to 
 join us in person (Select "In Person")\, and registration required to 
 receive the Vimeo link to watch online (Select "Online" during 
 registration). This program will be recorded and available to watch later 
 on the Library's Event Archive.\n\nJuliana Lamy is a Haitian fiction writer 
 from South Florida. She received her Bachelor’s degree in History & 
 Literature from Harvard University. While there\, she was also the 
 recipient of the university’s Le Baron Russell Brigg’s Prize for 
 Undergraduate Fiction\, as well as the Gordon Parks Essay Prize for 
 Nonfiction. She is the author of You Were Watching from the Sand (Red Hen 
 Press\, 2023)\, winner of Red Hen Press's 2021 Ann Petry Award for 
 Fiction\, winner of the 2024 CLMP Firecracker Award for Fiction\, and 
 longlisted for the 2024 Carol Shield's Prize as well as the 2024 OCM Bocas 
 Prize for Caribbean Fiction. In 2023\, she received her MFA in fiction from 
 the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She has work forthcoming from Ploughshares 
 Magazine. She really is 6”2\, she swears.
LOCATION:John A. and Carole O. Moran Lecture Hall\, The Community Library
ORGANIZER;CN="Martha Williams":MAILTO:mwilliams@comlib.org
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Conversations
CONTACT;CN="Martha Williams":MAILTO:mwilliams@comlib.org
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