Jamaica Kincaid at the Cambridge Public Library

Harvard Book Store and the Cambridge Public Library welcome JAMAICA KINCAID—Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University and award-winning author of A Small Place, Annie John, and Lucy—for a discussion of her new book An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children. She will be joined in conversation by KALYANI SAXENA—associate producer for WBUR's Here & Now.

Ticketing

RSVP for free to this event or choose the "Book-Included" ticket to reserve a copy of An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children and pick it up at the event. Jamaica will sign copies of her new book after the presentation.

About An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children

In this hard-hitting, witty, deeply original book, the renowned novelist Jamaica Kincaid offers an ABC of the plants that define our world and reveals the often brutal history of colonialism behind them.

Kara Walker, one of America's greatest visual artists, illustrates each entry with provocative, brilliant, enthralling, multilayered watercolors.

There has never been a book like An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children—inventive, surprising, and telling—about what our gardens reveal about the truth of history.