Author J.M. Holmes reads from his debut story collection HOW ARE YOU GOING TO SAVE YOURSELF, out from Little, Brown Company. The story collection was selected for NPR's Best Books of 2018 and received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews alongside many others. After the reading, J.M. will be in conversation with local author and professor of creative writing, E.C. Osondu (THIS HOUSE IS NOT FOR SALE, 2015), followed by a Q&A and book signing. Join us for a night of books, writers, and wine!

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ABOUT THE BOOK:

HOW ARE YOU GOING TO SAVE YOURSELF by J.M. Holmes:

Bound together by shared experience but pulled apart by their changing fortunes, four young friends coming of age in the postindustrial enclave of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, struggle to liberate themselves from the legacies left to them as black men in America. With potent immediacy and bracing candor, this provocative debut follows a decade in the lives of Dub, Rolls, Rye, and Gio as they each grapple with the complexity of their family histories, the newfound power of sex and drugs, and the ferocity of their desires.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

** J.M. Holmes was born in Denver and raised in Rhode Island. His literary prizes include: Burnett Howe prize for fiction at Amherst College, the Henfield prize for literature, and a Pushcart prize. He's received fellowships at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference. He’s worked in educational outreach in Iowa, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, The White Review, How Journal, and is upcoming in the Missouri Review and Gettysburg. His debut book How Are You Going to Save Yourself will be published with Little, Brown August 21, 2018 and Sceptre books August 9, 2018.

** E.C. Osondu is the author of Voice of America and This House Is Not For Sale. Born in Nigeria, he received his MFA from Syracuse University and is the winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing and a Pushcart Prize. His fiction has appeared in The Atlantic, n+1, Guernica, and other publications. He teaches at Providence College in Rhode Island.