Danzy Senna reads from her most recent work, a story collection entitled You Are Free (Riverhead 2011). The book presents eight short stories about women grappling with issues of identity, race, class, motherhood and dislocation. Jennifer Egan called the collection, “…[A] richly nuanced, often funny, always provocative work of art.” Novelist Edwidge Danticat said: “Danzy Senna’s probing and marvelous stories delve into the deepest layers of the human heart and psyche, all while showing us a multi-colored, multi- flavored, and most importantly multi-layered world to which we all–lovers, mothers, nomads, strangers–could easily belong.” After reading from the work, Senna will take questions from the audience.
