Award-winning author Deborah Wiles launches her latest from her Sixties Trilogy, Anthem, which a masterful story of what it’s like to be young and American in troubled times.
Deborah Wiles is a two-time National Book Award finalist, winner of the Ezra Jack Keats Award, the PEN Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Working Writer Fellowship, an NAACP Book Award finalist, Jane Addams Peace Award finalist, E.B. White Award winner, Golden Kite Award winner, and a purveyor of fine vowels. Anthem (Sixties Trilogy #3) is the remarkable story of two cousins who must take a road trip across American in 1969 in order to let a teen know he’s been drafted to fight in Vietnam. Doors open at 6:30. Event is free and open to the public. Books will be available to purchase and have signed.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Author Talks |
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