Our New Histories:
The Debut BIPOC Writers Reshaping Literature

Sep 19, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM

Cafe con Libros, 724 Prospect Pl
Brooklyn, NY 11216, USA

About the Event

Restless Books, Tin House, Amistad, and Ecco present four ascendent authors whose first releases shook 2025.

Camille U. Adams traces her family’s legacy of secrets and abandonment in the Trinidadian memoir How to Be Unmothered; individual longing and a Yoruba prophecy collide in Olufunke Grace Bankole’s intergenerational novel, The Edge of Water; Tramaine Suubi follows the waxing moon from anxiety to ecstasy in their poetry collection, phases; and Jared Lemus turns a cinematic eye to reluctant outlaws and would-be saints in the stories of Guatemalan Rhapsody. Moderated by M Lin.

THIS IS AN OFFICIAL 2025 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL BOOKEND EVENT