Yaël Ksander: Before we get into the books, I’d really love for our listeners to get acquainted with you. at Bloomington’s Morgenstern Books, Limestone Post is sharing excerpts of Yaël Ksander’s interview with Townsend (edited slightly for clarity), which aired on WFIU’s Inner States in May and can be heard on the Inner States podcast. In anticipation of their conversation on Monday, June 6 at 6:30 p.m. Monkey was also the 2015 Honor Book of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.Īlready receiving glowing reviews, Mother Country alternates between the story of Shannon - a Black woman in Louisville who’s got her share of western world struggles - and Souria - a Mauritanian woman who’s got her share of non-western struggles - and refuses to take sides. Awarded the J anet Heidinger Kafka Prize and the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for historical fiction, St. Now the Helen Zell Visiting Professor in Fiction at the University of Michigan, Townsend was associate professor of English at Indiana University when her 2014 debut novel, St. Editor’s Note: Published May 3, Jacinda Townsend’s new novel, Mother Country ( Graywolf Press, 2022), tackles the subject of motherhood from two perspectives on different sides of the world.
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