CRISTINA HENRÍQUEZ’s The Book of Unknown Americans, is, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, “a remarkable novel that every American should read.” Set amongst a diverse immigrant community in an apartment building in Delaware, the Washington Post praises it as “a deeply stirring story …. with a simple, unadorned prose that rises to the level of poetry …. without a trace of sentimentality, without an iota of self-indulgence or dogma … The Book of Unknown Americans leaves you in thrall to its vivid characters and its author’s sure hand.” Henríquez’s other two books, both published before she was 30, include The World In Half and Come Together, Fall Apart: A Novella and Stories, which was a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection. Her work has also appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Glimmer Train, and elsewhere. The Virginia Quarterly Review featured her as one of “Fiction’s New Luminaries” and she is a recipient of the Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Foundation Award.

MARLON JAMES is, according to Russell Banks, “not just among the best of … [the] crowd of brilliant young Americo-Carribean writers coming to the table these days, he’s among the best of all the young writers, period.” Publishers Weekly writes, “No novel this fall [2014] is more impressive than A Brief History of Seven Killings,” and Irvine Welsh calls it “the most original novel I’ve read in years … astonishingly brilliant.” The book centers on the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in 1976, encompassing a breathtaking array of voices: gang members, CIA agents, a Rolling Stone reporter, girlfriends, politicians, drug dealers, the children of the Kingston ghettos, even ghosts. As Kirkus Reviews writes, “James’s fiction is forming a remarkable portrait of Jamaica in the 19th and 20th centuries.” His other novels include John Crow’s Devil and The Book of Night Women, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, which The Globe and Mail called “a very nearly perfect work.”

Reading followed by an on-stage interview, book sale and signing.
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This reading will be preceded by Books & Bellinis: Inprint’s Young Professionals Mixer, which will take place from 6:00 – 7:15 pm at Birraporetti’s Downtown, hosted by Sannam and Scott Warrender. Click here for more details.