Jacinda Townsend presents Trigger Warning, featuring Nadia Owusu

P&T Knitwear is pleased to welcome Jacinda Townsend to celebrate and discuss her new book, Trigger Warning: a new novel about the enduring trauma of police brutality by the award-winning author of Mother Country.

Jacinda will be joined in conversation by Nadia Owusu, author of . Along with a discussion and audience Q&A, Jacinda will also sign copies of her book.

• This is a ticketed in-store event with limited amphitheater-style seating.
• Doors open at 6:30pm.
• Books will be available for purchase at the event.
• Cost of a $5 general admission ticket can be applied towards your purchase.
• Cost of a book bundle ticket reflects the total cost of the feature event book (MSRP plus tax). Each book bundle ticket guarantees ticket holders one (1) copy of the feature event book.
• The talk will be followed by a book signing. Books signed at P&T Knitwear events must be purchased from P&T Knitwear.
• If you would like a signed copy and cannot attend the event, we're happy to take your pre-order. We ship most places!
• We encourage all guests to wear masks.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jacinda Townsend is the author of Mother Country, winner of the Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, and Saint Monkey, winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for historical fiction. A former broadcast journalist, antitrust lawyer, and elected official, Townsend teaches at Brown University.

ABOUT THE MODERATOR

Nadia Owusu is a Brooklyn-based writer and urbanist. Her memoir, Aftershocks, was selected as a best book of 2021 by over a dozen publications, including Time, Vogue, Esquire, and the BBC, and has been translated into five languages. It was a New York Times Editors’ Choice pick, named one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of the year, and selected by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai for her Literati book club. Nadia is the winner of a Whiting Award in nonfiction and has received fellowships from Yaddo and Art Omi. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Orion, Granta, The Paris Review Daily, and others. She teaches creative writing at Columbia University and at the Mountainview MFA program and is the Director of Storytelling at Frontline Solutions, a consulting firm supporting social-change organizations.

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