CODA Author Kambri Crews
at Mid-Manhattan Library
Author to Give Presentation, Sign Books & Answer Questions About Her Memoir
Author to Give Presentation, Sign Books & Answer Questions About Her Memoir
New York,
NY — The New York Public Library Mid-Manhattan
Branch is pleased to welcome Kambri
Crews, author of Burn Down the Ground:
A Memoir (Random House) on August 21st at 6:30PM. Crews will
read and tell stories from her memoir, take questions from the audience and
sign books. The event is free and will be interpreted in American Sign Language.
Kambri
is a comedic storyteller and author of the highly
acclaimed new memoir Burn Down the Ground. Kambri will chat about
her unconventional childhood living with deaf parents in a tin shed in rural
Texas (Crews is not deaf), and her attempts to reconcile that harrowing
childhood to her present life—one in which her father is serving a twenty-year
sentence in a maximum-security prison for attempted murder.
Crews’s
memoir has received praise from Publishers
Weekly, Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, Glamour, ELLE magazine, and Library Journal, whose review states,
“While there’s plenty of memoir fodder in the hearing-child-of-two-deaf-parents
subject, Crews’s story has heartbreaking depth and complexity.
With insight into her father’s feelings about deafness, his über-Christian family’s response to his violence against the women in his life, and the culture of the deaf community, this is a rich read.”
With insight into her father’s feelings about deafness, his über-Christian family’s response to his violence against the women in his life, and the culture of the deaf community, this is a rich read.”
A renowned
storyteller and public speaker, Kambri has performed on The Moth, Risk!, UCB
Theatre, Gotham Comedy Club and given speeches at Illinois State
University, Rutgers, University of Oregon, DeafHope, and many other schools,
colleges, venues and events. Learn more about her at www.kambricrews.com
Aug 21 @ 6:30PM
NY
Public Library - Mid-Manhattan Branch
455 5th Ave.
455 5th Ave.
New
York, NY 10016
FREE!
Books will be available for purchase for $20. Credit cards or cash accepted.
PRAISE FOR BURN DOWN THE GROUND:
"Poignant and
unsettling." —Kirkus Reviews
"A compelling
testament to the strength of the human spirit.”—Booklist
"Crews' account
(the title refers to lighting brush on fire to clear out snakes) is as
well-paced and stirring as a novel. In her fluid narrative (she's also a
storyteller on the side, a gig that helped her develop this book), Crews
neither wallows in self-pity nor plays for cheap black-comedic yuks. Instead,
this book stands out for what matters most: Crews' story, bluntly told." —Elle
magazine
“Harrowing…A remarkable
odyssey of scorched earth, collateral damage, and survival." —Publishers
Weekly
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