Join MahoganyBooks for an exciting evening with author LaTonya Yvette discusses Stand In My Window, a book that explores the way in which we define what really makes a house a home. With meditative essays and beautiful photographs throughout, this book revolutionaizes the definiteion of homemaker.
A big thank you to the Prince George's County Memorial Library System - Oxon Hill Branch for partnering with us for this event.
About the book: Stand In My Window
“Home is a reflection of what we inherit.”
Grappling with the state of the world over the last few years—the global pandemic, climate change, threats to women’s rights, constant racial violence—LaTonya Yvette began to contemplate the concept of home. What does it mean to cultivate safety when it is constantly under threat? How can we nurture joy and peace within the spaces where we spend most of our precious time? Who can we turn to for guidance along the way?
In Stand in My Window: Meditations on Home and How We Make It, Yvette explores these kinds of questions as she takes readers through the journey of her own rediscovery of home. In eleven meditative essays, accompanied by 25 beautiful photographs taken over the course of writing the book, Yvette illustrates how the act of homemaking can be revolutionary, liberating—and one of the most powerful expressions we have of self- and community care.
Woven throughout the book is the story of the nearly 200-year-old house in upstate New York that Yvette bought and painstakingly renovated, with the aim of creating a safe space for BIPOC communities. The house—Yvette’s ultimate expression of home—provides her greatest lessons. Both visual feast and emotional salve, Stand in My Window demonstrates that home truly is what you make of it—in mind, body, soul, and in the thoughtfully curated spaces we can build for ourselves anywhere.
About the author: LaTonya Yvette is a multimedia storyteller who writes the newsletter "With Love, L." Yvette's first book, Woman of Color, was included in an installation of Jay-Z's personal bookshelf for Brooklyn Public Library's Book of HOV exhibit. She also co-authored the illustrated children's book The Hair Book with Amanda Jane Jones. Yvette is the owner and steward of the Mae house.
Event guidelines are subject to change.
- 6:30 PM - Doors Open | 7 PM Conversation Begins | 8:30 PM Event ends
- Non-refundable tickets, however transfers made be made.
- Face masks optional throughout event.
- Please email us at at least 14 days in advance at events@mahoganybooks.com should you need any accommodations to attend this event
- Please note, books not picked up at the event can be retrieved at our National Harbor location for two weeks after event day. Afterwhich, they will be donated to a local organization.
- Photographs may be taken during the event WITHOUT FLASH.
- Note: By entering the event premises, you waive all rights you may have to any claims for payment or royalties in connection with any photographs or videos taken.
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--Let's have an amazing evening,
Derrick, Ramunda & The MahoganyBooks Team
