The group of participants listed on The Great Romance Reads website includes regular book clubs at bookstores such as Chicago’s 57th Street Books and, naturally, The Ripped Bodice. To organize the event, Koch contacted every romance-related group she was aware of and also issued a public call on Twitter. “People are always down with an Austen connection but this is such a fresh modern take that I thought there would be plenty for people to discuss.” Of the novel, Kirkus Reviews wrote that it’s “not only a retelling, but an examination of timely issues, including class, blackness, and intraracial prejudice.” Visit for more information.As soon as Koch read Pride, a modern “remix” of Pride and Prejudice set in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood, “it seemed like the perfect fit,” she said. Born in Haiti and raised in New York City, she now lives in New Jersey with her family. She is also the editor of the anthology Black Enough. IBI ZOBOI is the New York Times bestselling author of American Street, a National Book Award finalist Pride My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich Star Child Okoye to the People the Walter Award–winning Punching the Air, cowritten with Exonerated Five member Yusef Salaam and the Coretta Scott King Honor–winning picture book The People Remember. From award-winning author Ibi Zoboi comes a powerful story about discovering who you are in the world-and fighting for that person-by having the courage to be your own revolution. One that will lead her to question everything she thought she knew about her life and her family. She finds herself taking care of her baby brother and stepping into a role she doesn’t want.Īs Nigeria searches for her mother, she starts to uncover a shocking truth.
But when her mother-the perfect matriarch of their Movement-disappears, Nigeria’s world is upended.
Nigeria is homeschooled and vegan and participates in traditional rituals to connect her and other kids from the group to their ancestors. He has raised her as part of the Movement, a Black separatist group based in Philadelphia. That’s what 17-year-old Nigeria Jones’ father calls her. IBI ZOBOI is the New York Times bestselling author of American Street, a National Book Award finalist Pride My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich Star Child Okoye to the People the Walter Award–winning Punching the Air and many others. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (The Daily Dish) – New York Times best-selling author Ibi Zoboi has written a new coming-of-age story called Nigeria Jones about discovering who you are in the world.
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