Alexis Okeowo with Blessings and Disasters: A Story of Alabama at The NewSouth Bookstore!

The book is called Blessings and Disasters: A Story of Alabama. It’s a perspective-shifting work that is both an intimate memoir and a journalistic triumph by Alexis Okeowo, a New Yorker staff writer and PEN award winner. In the book, Okeowo investigates her life, other Alabamians’ lives, and the state’s lesser-known histories to understand why Alabama has been the stage for the most extreme results of the American experiment. A blend of memoir, history, and reportage which Yaa Gyasi calls “extraordinary,” the book is also timely and engrossing. It sheds light on the divided face of our nation even as it defines the complexities of this place many of us call home. We are so fortunate to host Alexis Okeowo at The NewSouth Bookstore on Tuesday, August 12 at 5:30pm. Don’t miss it.

You may also like the following events from The NewSouth Bookstore:

• Next Sunday, 8th June, 03:00 pm, Jennifer Horne returns for a talk about Letters to Little Rock: Poems! in Montgomery
• Next month, 19th June, 05:30 pm, Peter Kuper with Insectopolis: A Natural History at The NewSouth Bookstore! in Montgomery
• Next month, 24th June, 05:30 pm, Barbara McQuade with Attack from Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America in Montgomery

Also check out other Arts events in Montgomery, Literary Art events in Montgomery.