Upstairs at Murray's: Kiese Laymon - A Fundraiser for Tivoli Free Library - N.A. - (Tivoli, NY)

Join us and Oblong Books for a fundraiser benefiting the Tivoli Free Library with author, Kiese Laymon. It will happen upstairs in the Sanctuary at Murray's, located at 73 Broadway, Tivoli, NY 12583. This event is hosted by Oblong Books in collaboration with Murray's, as well as additional marketing and promotional support provided by Bard Written Arts. In this powerful, provocative, and universally lauded memoir - shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal and Kirkus Prize - genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon “provocatively meditates on his trauma growing up as a black man, and in turn crafts an essential polemic against American moral rot” (Entertainment Weekly). Named a Best Book of 2018 by: The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, NPR, Broadly, Buzzfeed (Nonfiction), The Undefeated, Library Journal (Biography/Memoirs), The Washington Post (Nonfiction), Southern Living (Southern), and Entertainment Weekly.