Author Night and Book Club with Mimi Herman
Venue: Blacksburg Books, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Friday, February 10, 2023
Time: 7:00 - 8:00 PM
Event Types: Arts & Theatre, Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free
Blacksburg Books presents an Author Night and Book Club with Mimi Herman on Friday, February 10, 2023.
Mimi Herman will be here to do a reading from her latest book, "The Kudzu Queen".
In 1941, James T. Cullowee, the Kudzu King, arrives in Cooper County, NC to spread the gospel of kudzu—claiming it will improve the soil, feed cattle, even cure headaches. When Mr. Cullowee organizes a kudzu festival, complete with a beauty pageant, fifteen-year-old Mattie Lee Watson wants to be crowned Kudzu Queen and capture his attention—until she discovers that Mr. Cullowee, like the kudzu he promotes, has a dark and predatory side. Based on historical facts, The Kudzu Queen unravels a tangle of sexuality, power, race, and kudzu through an irresistibly delightful (and mostly honest) narrator.
Mimi Herman is the author of "The Kudzu Queen", "Logophilia" and "A Field Guide to Human Emotions". Her writing has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, Crab Orchard Review, The Hollins Critic, Prime Number, and other journals. She has performed at Why There are Words, Symphony Space, and Raleigh Memorial Auditorium. Mimi is a member of the AWP Board of Directors, a Warren Wilson MFA alumna, a Kennedy Center Teaching Artist and a Hermitage Artist Retreat Fellow. She co-directs Writeaways writing workshops in France, Italy, Ireland and New Mexico.
You can find out more about her at https://www.mimiherman.com/ or https://www.facebook.com/mimi.herman.961 or https://www.instagram.com/mimihermanbooks/.
Blacksburg Books is located at 401 South Main Street, Suite 106 in Blacksburg, VA.
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