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2010 Appearances (See www.BookTour.com for more information.) All events are free and open to the public.
Davis-Kidd Booksellers, Memphis, TN, January 8. 6pm.
Memphis Botanic Garden, Memphis, TN, January 10. 4pm.
Happy Ending Lounge, New York, NY, January 16. 7pm.
Politics & Prose, Washington, DC February 6. 1pm.(RESCHEDULED to Feb. 20 at 3:30pm due to weather)
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign February 18. 4:30pm.
Reading/Reception with Deborah Willis, author of Posing Beauty, Georgia, New York City, 89 E Houston St. February 25, 6:30pm
Girls Write Now! Center for Fiction, New York, NY February 26.6 pm.
Lane College, Jackson, TN March 2.CyberCafe. 2-4pm.
Rhodes College, Blount Auditorium, Memphis, TN March 3. 7pm.
Enoch Pratt Library, Baltimore,March 6. 1pm.
Eso Won Books, 4331 Degnan Blvd, Los Angeles, March 18. 7:30pm.
Occidental College, Los Angeles, March 19. 12pm.
Marcus Books, San Francisco, Fillmore District, March 20, 6:00pm. Interviewed by Marcus Books co-founder Dr. Raye Richardson.
Elliott Bay Books Signing held at Douglass-Truth Branch of Seattle Public Library,2300 E. Yesler Way, March 22. 6:30pm.
University of Puget Sound, Wheelock Student Center, Tacoma, WA March 24, 7pm.
National Black Writers Conference, Medgar Evers College. Brooklyn, NY. March 27.
AWP Conference, Denver, CO. April 9, 3pm.
"Read To Grow," West Hartford, CT. April 15. 6:30p. (www.readtogrow.org)
Lincoln University, Jefferson City, MO. April 20. Scruggs Ballroom. 5:30pm.
Prince George's County Library. Hyattsville Branch. April 26. 7pm.
Massachusetts Library Association. April 30. 2:45pm. Resort and Conference Center. Hyannis, MA.
Silver Spring Library. Montgomery County, Maryland. May 13. 7pm.
Gaithersburg Book Festival. City Hall Grounds. May 15. 11am. (GaithersburgBookFestival.org)
University of California, Riverside. May 20. Reading and Booksigning. 4pm.
Harvard Reunion Booksigning. All are invited! May 29. 10am-12pm. 45 Dunster Street in Cambridge, MA.
DC Public Library Event. Chevy Chase Branch. June 12 at 12pm. 5625 Connecticut Ave NW.
American Library Association Annual Conference. Washington, DC. June 27-28. More info to come.
Check out WENCH in the following media outlets:
Essence Magazine, January 2010
The Network Journal, Jan 2010
O,The Oprah Magazine, Feb. 2010
Town & Country, Feb. 2010
USA Today, January 14, 2010
People Magazine, Jan. 18, 2010
Memphis Commercial Appeal,Jan.3
WENCH has received excellent critical reviews from:
Publishers Weekly
Kirkus Reviews
Booklist
**plus a starred review from Library Journal!
New interview with Lynn Neary on NPR's Tell Me More:
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“What struck me most forcibly about Dolen Perkins-Valdez’s novel, Wench, was the simple and extraordinary delving into the human heart, the choices destiny doled and how those choices were answered. Perkins-Valdez crawls under your skin and probes and pushes most gracefully and in clear concise lyric prose, ultimately asking the question that only extraordinary fiction can ask – what would you have done? A striking story of heart and mind, Wench captures time and delivers it to us. A superb and outstanding achievement.” -Jeffrey Lent, author of In the Fall & A Peculiar Grace
