BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sitewrench//Calendar API//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2061303 DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210504T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210504T200000 SUMMARY:Jewell Parker Rhodes DESCRIPTION:Magic City Books is thrilled to welcome Jewell Parker Rhodes fo r a virtual author event in celebration of the reissue of her magnificent novel\, \;Magic City.\n\nWith a new Afterword from the author reflect ing on the 100th anniversary of one of the most heinous tragedies in Ameri can history&ndash\;the 1921 burning of Greenwood\, an affluent black secti on of Tulsa\, Oklahoma\, known as the Negro Wall Street&ndash\;Jewell Park er Rhodes&rsquo\; powerful and \;unforgettable novel of racism\, vigil antism\, and injustice\, weaves history\, mysticism\, and murder into a ha rrowing tale of dreams and violence gone awry.\n\nThis free event will be hosted on the Zoom platform and Facebook Live. To register in advance for the event on Zoom visit here.\n\nAfter registering you will receive a con firmation email with details on how to join the event on Tuesday May 4th a t 7:00 p.m. \;Magic City \;will be published on May 4th and is ava ilable to pre-order now at Magic City Books or online.\n\nAbout \;Magi c City\n\nTulsa\, Oklahoma\, 1921. A white woman and a black man are alone in an elevator. Suddenly\, the woman screams\, the man flees\, and the ch ase to capture and lynch him begins.\n\nWhen Joe Samuels\, a young Black m an with dreams of becoming the next Houdini\, is accused of rape\, he must perform his greatest escape by eluding a bloodthirsty mob.\n\nMeanwhile\, Mary Keane\, the white\, motherless daughter of a farmer who wants to mar ry her off to the farmhand who viciously raped her\, must find the courage to help exonerate the man she accused with her panicked cry.\n\nMagic Cit y \;evokes one of the darkest chapters of twentieth century\, Jim Crow America\, painting an intimate portrait of the heroic but doomed stand th at pitted the National Guard against a small band of black men determined to defend the prosperous town they had built.\n\nJewell Parker Rhodes&nbs p\;is the recipient of a Yaddo Creative Writing Fellowship and the Nationa l Endowment of the Arts Award in Fiction. She is professor of creative wri ting and American literature and Director of the M.F.A. program in creativ e writing at Arizona State University.\n LOCATION:Magic City Books URL:http://roottulsa.sitewrench.com/events/event/2061303 CREATED:20210310T100028Z DTSTAMP:20240329T154648Z X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Magic City Books is thrilled to welcome Jew ell Parker Rhodes for a virtual author event in celebration of the reissue of her magnificent novel\, \;Magic City.
\n\nWith a ne w Afterword from the author reflecting on the 100th anniversary of one of the most heinous tragedies in American history&ndash\;the 1921 burning of Greenwood\, an affluent black section of Tulsa\, Oklahoma\, known as the Negro Wall Street&ndash\;Jewell Parker Rhodes&rsquo\; powerful and \; unforgettable novel of racism\, vigilantism\, and injustice\, weaves histo ry\, mysticism\, and murder into a harrowing tale of dreams and violence g one awry.
\n\nThis free event will be hosted on the Zoom platform an d Facebook Live. To register in advance for the event on Zoom visit here.
\n\nAfter registering you will receive a confirmation email with details on how to join the event on Tuesday May 4th at 7:00 p. m. \;Magic City \;will be published on May 4th and is ava ilable to pre-order now at Magic City Books or online.
\n\nAbo ut \;Magic City
\n\nTulsa\, Oklahoma\, 1921. A white woman and a black man are alone in an elevator. Suddenly\, the woma n screams\, the man flees\, and the chase to capture and lynch him begins.
\n\nWhen Joe Samuels\, a young Black man with dreams of becoming th e next Houdini\, is accused of rape\, he must perform his greatest escape by eluding a bloodthirsty mob.
\n\nMeanwhile\, Mary Keane\, the whi te\, motherless daughter of a farmer who wants to marry her off to the far mhand who viciously raped her\, must find the courage to help exonerate th e man she accused with her panicked cry.
\n\nMagic City&nbs p\;evokes one of the darkest chapters of twentieth century\, Jim Crow Amer ica\, painting an intimate portrait of the heroic but doomed stand that pi tted the National Guard against a small band of black men determined to de fend the prosperous town they had built.
\n\nJewell Parker R hodes \;is the recipient of a Yaddo Creative Writing Fellowsh ip and the National Endowment of the Arts Award in Fiction. She is profess or of creative writing and American literature and Director of the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Arizona State University.
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