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Open Book / Open Mind, Ayana Mathis, "The Unsettled"

2024-02-03 16:00:00 2024-02-03 17:30:00 America/New_York Open Book / Open Mind, Ayana Mathis, "The Unsettled" The author of “The Twelve Tribes of Hattie” talks about her new family saga set in the 1980s spanning Philadelphia and small-town Alabama with memoirist and essayist Emily Raboteau, Main Library - Auditorium, Conference Room

Saturday, February 03
4:00pm - 5:30pm

Add to Calendar 2024-02-03 16:00:00 2024-02-03 17:30:00 America/New_York Open Book / Open Mind, Ayana Mathis, "The Unsettled" The author of “The Twelve Tribes of Hattie” talks about her new family saga set in the 1980s spanning Philadelphia and small-town Alabama with memoirist and essayist Emily Raboteau, Main Library - Auditorium, Conference Room

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The author of “The Twelve Tribes of Hattie” talks about her new family saga set in the 1980s spanning Philadelphia and small-town Alabama with memoirist and essayist Emily Raboteau,

REGISTRATION IS CLOSED BUT SEATS ARE AVAILABLE. Please come join us today!

The event is free but registration is required. Doors open at 3:30 p.m. After the discussion, there will be a Q&A period and a book signing and sale with Watchung Booksellers. 

Open Book / Open Mind is sponsored by Montclair Public Library Foundation, Watchung Booksellers, the New Jersey Council on Humanities, David and Mary Lee Jones, Rosemary Iversen and an anonymous donor. We are also grateful for the generous support of our in-kind sponsors, First Congregational Church of Montclair, The George, and Amanti Vino. To support Open Book / Open Mind and other library programs, click here to donate.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ayana Mathis's  first novel, THE TWELVE TRIBES OF HATTIE, was a New York Times Bestseller, the second selection for Oprah’s Book Club 2.0, a 2013 New York Times Notable Book, NPR Best Book of 2013, and was long listed for the Dublin Literary Award and nominated for Hurston/Wright Foundation's Legacy Award. Mathis’s essays and criticism have been published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Financial Times, Rolling Stone, and Glamour magazine. She is currently pursuing her Masters of Divinity at Union Theological Seminary.

Mathis's work has been supported by the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and the Bogliasco Foundation. She was a 2020-2021 American Academy in Berlin Prize Fellow. Mathis received her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and went on to become the first African-American woman to serve as an Assistant Professor in that program. She currently teaches at Hunter College in the MFA Program. 

She was born in Philadelphia, and currently lives in New York City where she teaches writing in Hunter College’s MFA Program.

ABOUT THE BOOK

 "The Unsettled" was named a New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book of 2023, a best of 2023 by The New Yorker, Publisher’s Weekly, an Oprah Daily Best Novels of 2023, and a Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2023. The New York Times calls it, “Poignant, heartbreaking.”

The book is a searing multi-generational novel—set in the 1980s in racially and politically turbulent Philadelphia and in the tiny town of Bonaparte, Alabama—about a mother fighting for her sanity and survival.

“Ten years after "The Twelve Tribes of Hattie," Mathis again strikes story-telling gold.” –People

“An ardent, ambitious, and carefully stitched tapestry of a novel, one that deserves and rewards our attention.” –The Minneapolis Star Tribune

“'The Unsettled' is a powerful, moving novel about the fracture of Black family and the attempts we make to suture it, about the power of our history and futile attempts to sanitize it, about the connection of Black people to the lands they fight so hard to keep, and the government’s attempts to separate them from it.” –Roxane Gay 

“[A] masterpiece . . . "The Unsettled" is poised to be a significant addition to contemporary literature, affirming Mathis’s status as a gifted and influential voice in the literary world . . .  An emotionally charged journey through the intricate tapestry of family, love, and the relentless pursuit of belonging.” –Essence magazine

ABOUT THE CONVERSATION PARTNER

Emily Raboteau writes at the intersection of social and environmental justice, race, climate change, and parenthood. Raboteau is an essayist and novelist with an upcoming memoir, “Lessons for Survival.”  Her previous books are "Searching for Zion," winner of an American Book Award, and "The Professor’s Daughter" A regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, Raboteau’s essays have recently appeared and been anthologized in The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Nation, and elsewhere. She is a full professor at the City College of New York (CUNY) in Harlem and lives in the Bronx with her husband, the novelist Victor LaValle, and their two children.

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Sun, Apr 13, 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Main Library - Auditorium
Carl Selinger

Mon, Apr 14, 3:00pm - 5:30pm
Main Library - Teen Room
Come hang out with your friends in the Teen Room and make bracelets!
No registration required.

Tue, Apr 15, 4:00pm - 7:30pm
Main Library - Staff Instruction Room
Margarette (they/them) can assist you with a variety of services. 4-6:15 p.m. drop-in 6:30-7:15 by appointment

Tue, Apr 15, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Anderson Park
This is an Adult School class.
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Wed, Apr 16, 10:00am - 4:00pm
Main Library - Auditorium
Diane Jones

Wed, Apr 16, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Main Library
A virtual, lively, and informative discussion on today’s financial markets and how they might fit into your portfolio.

Wed, Apr 16, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Main Library - Tower Room
This is a paid Adult School Class. When registering, you will be taken to the Adult School Website.
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Wed, Apr 16, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Online
This is a paid Adult School Class. When registering, you will be taken to the Adult School Website.
Register

Thu, Apr 17, 10:00am - 4:00pm
Main Library - Auditorium
Diane Jones

Thu, Apr 17, 11:00am - 2:00pm
Main Library - Staff Instruction Room
Margarette (they/them) can assist you with a variety of services. Walk-ins: 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. Appointments: 12 p.m., 12:45 p.m., 1:30 p.m.

Sat, Apr 19, 7:30am - 8:30am
Anderson Park
This is an Adult School class.
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Mon, Apr 21, 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Main Library - Auditorium
set up for board meeting

Mon, Apr 21, 3:00pm - 5:30pm
Main Library - Teen Room
Come hang out with your friends in the Teen Room and make bracelets!
No registration required.

Mon, Apr 21, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Main Library - Auditorium
The Board of Trustees meets to discuss issues of governance of the Library. Meetings are open to the public in accordance with the Open... more
The Board of Trustees meets to discuss issues of governance of the Library. Meetings are open to the public in accordance with the Open Public Meetings Act.

Tue, Apr 22, 11:00am - 1:00pm
Main Library - Tower Room
Free drop-in wellness screenings courtesy of Hackensack Meridian Mountainside Medical Center.

Tue, Apr 22, 4:00pm - 7:30pm
Main Library - Staff Instruction Room
Margarette (they/them) can assist you with a variety of services. 4-6:15 p.m. drop-in 6:30-7:15 by appointment

Tue, Apr 22, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Anderson Park
This is an Adult School class.
Register

Wed, Apr 23, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Online
This is a paid Adult School Class. When registering, you will be taken to the Adult School Website.
Register

Thu, Apr 24, 11:00am - 2:00pm
Main Library - Staff Instruction Room
Margarette (they/them) can assist you with a variety of services. Walk-ins: 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. Appointments: 12 p.m., 12:45 p.m., 1:30 p.m.

Sat, Apr 26, 7:30am - 8:30am
Anderson Park
This is an Adult School class.
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Sat, Apr 26, 11:00am - 2:00pm
Main Library
Margarette (they/them) can assist you with a variety of services. Walk-ins: 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Appointment: 1-1:45 p.m.

Sat, Apr 26, 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Main Library - Classroom
andrea schultz Jessanne Collins

Mon, Apr 28, 3:00pm - 5:30pm
Main Library - Teen Room
Come hang out with your friends in the Teen Room and make bracelets!
No registration required.

Tue, Apr 29, 4:00pm - 7:30pm
Main Library - Staff Instruction Room
Margarette (they/them) can assist you with a variety of services. 4-6:15 p.m. drop-in 6:30-7:15 by appointment

Tue, Apr 29, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Anderson Park
This is an Adult School class.
Register

Wed, Apr 30, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Main Library - Tower Room
This is a paid Adult School Class. When registering, you will be taken to the Adult School Website.
Register

Wed, Apr 30, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Online
This is a paid Adult School Class. When registering, you will be taken to the Adult School Website.
Register

Thu, May 01, 11:00am - 2:00pm
Main Library - Staff Instruction Room
Margarette (they/them) can assist you with a variety of services. Walk-ins: 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. Appointments: 12 p.m., 12:45 p.m., 1:30 p.m.

Sat, May 03, 7:30am - 8:30am
Anderson Park
This is an Adult School class.
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Mon, May 05, 3:00pm - 5:30pm
Main Library - Teen Room
Come hang out with your friends in the Teen Room and make bracelets!
No registration required.

Tue, May 06, 4:00pm - 7:30pm
Main Library - Staff Instruction Room
Margarette (they/them) can assist you with a variety of services. 4-6:15 p.m. drop-in 6:30-7:15 by appointment

Tue, May 06, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Anderson Park
This is an Adult School class.
Register

Wed, May 07, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Online
This is a paid Adult School Class. When registering, you will be taken to the Adult School Website.
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Thu, May 08, 11:00am - 2:00pm
Main Library - Staff Instruction Room
Margarette (they/them) can assist you with a variety of services. Walk-ins: 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. Appointments: 12 p.m., 12:45 p.m., 1:30 p.m.

Thu, May 08, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Main Library - Tower Room
Join us for our monthly Teen Book Club. Each month, we'll read books from a different theme or genre and discuss! We meet on the second... more
Join us for our monthly Teen Book Club. Each month, we'll read books from a different theme or genre and discuss! We meet on the second Thursday of every month.
Registration is required.

Sat, May 10, 7:30am - 8:30am
Anderson Park
This is an Adult School class.
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Mon, May 12, 3:00pm - 5:30pm
Main Library - Teen Room
Come hang out with your friends in the Teen Room and make bracelets!
No registration required.

Tue, May 13, 4:00pm - 7:30pm
Main Library - Staff Instruction Room
Margarette (they/them) can assist you with a variety of services. 4-6:15 p.m. drop-in 6:30-7:15 by appointment

Tue, May 13, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Anderson Park
This is an Adult School class.
Register

Wed, May 14, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Main Library
A virtual, lively, and informative discussion on today’s financial markets and how they might fit into your portfolio.

Wed, May 14, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Main Library - Tower Room
This is a paid Adult School Class. When registering, you will be taken to the Adult School Website.
Register

Wed, May 14, 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Main Library - Storytime Room
Join us for Pokémon Club -- you can battle your friends on Switch or using your cards! Don't have a deck? Don't worry, we have premade... more
Join us for Pokémon Club -- you can battle your friends on Switch or using your cards! Don't have a deck? Don't worry, we have premade sets ready to go! You will have to bring your own Switch.
This event is full

Wed, May 14, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Online
This is a paid Adult School Class. When registering, you will be taken to the Adult School Website.
Register

Thu, May 15, 11:00am - 2:00pm
Main Library - Staff Instruction Room
Margarette (they/them) can assist you with a variety of services. Walk-ins: 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. Appointments: 12 p.m., 12:45 p.m., 1:30 p.m.

Sat, May 17, 7:30am - 8:30am
Anderson Park
This is an Adult School class.
Register

Mon, May 19, 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Main Library - Auditorium
set up for board meeting

Mon, May 19, 3:00pm - 5:30pm
Main Library - Teen Room
Come hang out with your friends in the Teen Room and make bracelets!
No registration required.

Mon, May 19, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Main Library - Auditorium
The Board of Trustees meets to discuss issues of governance of the Library. Meetings are open to the public in accordance with the Open... more
The Board of Trustees meets to discuss issues of governance of the Library. Meetings are open to the public in accordance with the Open Public Meetings Act.

Tue, May 20, 4:00pm - 7:30pm
Main Library - Staff Instruction Room
Margarette (they/them) can assist you with a variety of services. 4-6:15 p.m. drop-in 6:30-7:15 by appointment

Tue, May 20, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Anderson Park
This is an Adult School class.
Register

Wed, May 21, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Online
This is a paid Adult School Class. When registering, you will be taken to the Adult School Website.
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Wed, May 21, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Offsite
High school juniors and their families will learn how to use the summer productively to create a compelling college... more
High school juniors and their families will learn how to use the summer productively to create a compelling college application.
Presented by our friends at Stand Out for College.
Register

Thu, May 22, 11:00am - 2:00pm
Main Library - Staff Instruction Room
Margarette (they/them) can assist you with a variety of services. Walk-ins: 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. Appointments: 12 p.m., 12:45 p.m., 1:30 p.m.

Sat, May 24, 7:30am - 8:30am
Anderson Park
This is an Adult School class.
Register

Mon, May 26, 3:00pm - 5:30pm
Main Library - Teen Room
Come hang out with your friends in the Teen Room and make bracelets!
No registration required.

Tue, May 27, 4:00pm - 7:30pm
Main Library - Staff Instruction Room
Margarette (they/them) can assist you with a variety of services. 4-6:15 p.m. drop-in 6:30-7:15 by appointment

Tue, May 27, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Anderson Park
This is an Adult School class.
Register

Wed, May 28, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Main Library - Tower Room
This is a paid Adult School Class. When registering, you will be taken to the Adult School Website.
Register

Wed, May 28, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Online
This is a paid Adult School Class. When registering, you will be taken to the Adult School Website.
Register

Thu, May 29, 11:00am - 2:00pm
Main Library - Staff Instruction Room
Margarette (they/them) can assist you with a variety of services. Walk-ins: 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. Appointments: 12 p.m., 12:45 p.m., 1:30 p.m.

Sat, May 31, 7:30am - 8:30am
Anderson Park
This is an Adult School class.
Register

Sat, May 31, 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Main Library - Classroom
andrea schultz Jessanne Collins

Mon, Jun 02, 3:00pm - 5:30pm
Main Library - Teen Room
Come hang out with your friends in the Teen Room and make bracelets!
No registration required.

Tue, Jun 03, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Anderson Park
This is an Adult School class.
Register

Wed, Jun 04, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Online
This is a paid Adult School Class. When registering, you will be taken to the Adult School Website.
Register

Mon, Jun 09, 3:00pm - 5:30pm
Main Library - Teen Room
Come hang out with your friends in the Teen Room and make bracelets!
No registration required.