Author of the Month: Lola Adeyemo and Leonora Simonovis

Please join us for a special evening presenting two of San Diego's authors Lola Adeyemo and Leonora Simonovis and their newest books Thriving in Intersectionality and Study of the Raft both exploring the immigrant experience.  

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Join author Lola M. Adeyemo’s as she discusses her book Thriving in Intersectionality which explores immigrant status and its intersection with other under-represented identities within the corporate work culture in America. Adeyemo uses the experiences and lessons from her life and the lives of over thirty immigrant women who are thriving in their environments as a basis for insightful analysis. She offers an insider’s perspective — the whys and wherefores to those wishing to give support to others. Thriving in Intersectionality addresses some of the biggest concerns while offering consideration to include those of different backgrounds, genders, religions, and ethnicities. 

Join author Leonora Simonovis as she discusses her book Study of the Raft which features poems that weave the outer world of a failed political revolution in her native country, Venezuela, with an inner journey into the memories of migration and exile, of a home long gone, and of family relations, especially among women. The collection explores the consequences of colonization, the politics of the present and also the politics of the past, not just in the Venezuelan context, but in many other Latin American and Caribbean countries. Simonovis’s poems question the capacity of language to represent the complexity of lived experience, especially when it involves living from more than one language and culture. 

Visit here for more information on Lola Adeyemo and Leonora Simonovis.

Author of the Month is a project of the Friends of San Diego Central Library and is held on the 2nd Tuesday of the month. HELP the Friends to support the Library and become a member.