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Khadijah VanBrakle to sign copies of her book 'My Perfect Family' at Page 1 Books
AT PAGE 1 BOOKS
Khadijah VanBrakle will discuss and sign copies of her new young adult novel “My Perfect Family” from 6-8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 6.
The novel follows 16-year-old Leena who is close to her mom, but she has always dreamed of having a big family. Then everything changes for Leena with a single call from the hospital.
She learns she does have a family — an aunt and a grandfather. But her grandfather, Tariq, is very sick but wants to get to know Leena as much as she wants to know him.
But why did Leena’s mom hide him from her for so long?
The book is described as a warm, funny and poignant contemporary story of the complex relationship of mothers and daughters and what it means to be a Black Muslim woman in America. It’s also about forging your own path while still loving those who remain by your side.
“My Perfect Family” is VanBrackle’s second novel for young adults. The first was “Fatima Tate Takes the Cake.” It was an NAACP Image Award finalist for Outstanding Youth/Teens literature, a School Library Journal’s Teen Library Toolbox Favorite Young Adult Read and a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection.
VanBrackle lives in Albuquerque.
Page 1 Books is located at 5851 Eubank Blvd. NE.
AT BOOKWORKS
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Three Albuquerque authors — Khadijah VanBrakle, Laurel Goodluck and Caroline Starr Rose — will celebrate Grandparents’ Day at 1 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 7, at Bookworks.
As part of the celebration, the authors will read from and sign copies of their books, take part in panel discussions and answer questions from the audience.
Bookworks is located at 4022 Rio Grande Blvd. NW.
AT COLLECTED WORKS
Demetria Martínez and Susan Sherman will talk about their new book “Poetry in Dangerous Times: Two Women, Two Worlds” at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 4, at Collected Works.
The first part of the book is a dialogue between Martínez and Sherman.
The second part contains new and selected poems by each of them.
Martínez is also a writer and activist. Her novel “Mother Tongue” won a Western States Book Award. She has several published poetry collections, a short story collection, an essay collection and other works. She lives in New Mexico.
Sherman is a playwright, essayist, memoirist and editor/co-founder of IKON magazine. She has been the poetry editor of The Nation and The Village Voice. Sherman lives in New York.
Collected Works is located at 202 Galisteo St. in Santa Fe.
AT GARCIA STREET BOOKS
Three New Mexico authors — Basia Irland, Wendi Schuller and Sandra Schackel — will talk about their books at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 6, at Garcia Street Books.
Irland’s most recent book is “What Rivers Knows: Listening to the Voices of Global Waterways.” She is also an activist, an artist and a Fulbright Scholar who is professor emerita with the department of art at the University of New Mexico, where she founded the art and ecology program.
Schuller has written two children’s books — “Jack Jack The Jungle Cat” and “Jack Jack The Cat Loose in London” — and “The Adventures of Margo: Girl Detective” a book for young readers. Schuller is also a dating coach, a nurse, a neuro-linguistic programmer and a hypnotherapist.
Schackel is the author of the memoir “Apron to Cap and Gown, Teen Bride to Scholar 1950s-1970s.” She is professor emerita, Boise State University, where she taught American women’s history and history of the American West.
Garcia Street Books is located at 376 Garcia St. in Santa Fe.
