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Thursday, April 12, 2018<\/strong>
\n6:00 pm doors open
\n7:00 pm reading and book signing program
\n2nd Floor Reading Room, Main Library<\/strong>
\n5 Washington Street, Newark<\/p>\n

Join us for a free family reading event!\u00a0 Pulitzer Prize winner Junot D\u00edaz will be reading and signing his new children’s book Islandborn<\/strong><\/em> (Lola<\/strong><\/em> in espa\u00f1ol), with illustrations by Leo Espinosa.<\/p>\n

Every kid in Lola\u2019s school was from somewhere else.\u00a0<\/i>
\nHers was a school of faraway places.<\/i><\/p>\n

Hear how Lola drew on the memories of her family to draw a picture of the island where she was born.<\/p>\n

Please Note: Seating for this special event is limited to 300 persons.\u00a0 Please click on this link to go to the online registration form<\/a>. Please note: preregistration does not guarantee seating.<\/p>\n

Any child attending this program will receive a free book in English or Spanish, while supplies last. Additional copies of the book will be available for $12.<\/p>\n

Dominican American author, educator, and editor Junot D\u00edaz was born in the Dominican Republic and emigrated with his family to New Jersey when he was six years old.\u00a0 A graduate of Rutgers University, he is the Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and serves as fiction editor at the journal Boston Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n

D\u00edaz’s novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao<\/em> was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has published two short story collections, Drown<\/em> and This Is How You Lose Her<\/em>, which was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2012. He has received a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” fellowship, the PEN\/Malamud Award, Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, and the PEN\/O. Henry Award. He was inducted as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2017, and became the first Latinx juror for the Pulitzer Prize board in 2010.<\/p>\n

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This program is cosponsored by the Newark Public Library, the Friends of the HRIC, and Newark Mommies.<\/p>\n

For more information, please call 973-733-7772.<\/p>\n

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Free books for children are provided through First Book, thanks to funding from the Victoria Foundation.<\/p>\n

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Descargar el folleto en Espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/div>
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Free parking will be available at the Essex County Parking Deck on Bridge Street, between McCarter Highway (NJ Route 21) and Broad Street, from 3:00 – 10:30 pm. All cars must exit the lot no later than 10:30 pm<\/strong>. Many thanks to Essex County Executive Joseph DiVincenzo and the Essex County Improvement Authority for making free parking available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thursday, April 12, 2018 6:00 pm doors open 7:00 pm reading and book signing program 2nd Floor Reading Room, Main Library 5 Washington Street, Newark Join us for a free family reading event!\u00a0 Pulitzer Prize winner Junot D\u00edaz will be reading and signing his new children’s book Islandborn (Lola in espa\u00f1ol), with illustrations by Leo… <\/p>\n

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