I Give You Half the Road: Author Talk with Carol Spindel
- Event Type
- Other
- Sponsor
- Urbana Free Library
- Date
- Apr 5, 2021 7:00 - 8:00 pm
- Registration
- Registration
- Views
- 12
- Originating Calendar
- Campus Humanities Calendar
Photos and stories from local author Carol Spindel's recently released book. In her book of true stories, I Give You Half the Road, writer Carol Spindel recounts the turbulent recent history of Ivory Coast by interweaving the lives of five people she has known since they were children -- a schoolteacher in a fast-growing city; an HIV-positive widow trying to hide her illness and support her sons; a diviner who speaks with spirits and sells bulletproof shirts; a scrap iron dealer who is successful despite being illiterate, and a young man who joins an armed rebellion and learns that war is a business. This is also an American writer's memoir of a long-term relationship between her family and the Ivorian community she loves and learns from. Please register in advance to get your Zoom link for this event.