Author | Playwright | Lecturer | Advocate
Lorene
Cary
"A thoroughly engaging memoir.… Cary invites readers into a complex extended family.… A distinctly American story."
Martha Anne Toll, NPR
Ladysitting: My Year with Nana at the End of Her Century
Praise & Reviews
"A profoundly moving, evocative work that puts a fully realized human face on the issue of slavery and its consequences.The Price of a Child marks the emergence of a powerful voice in American fiction."
Paula L. Woods, Philadelphia Inquirer
The Price of a Child
“Engaging. . . . Cary creates characters with such full-bodied life that their predicaments remain vivid.”
The New York Times Book Review
If Sons, Then Heirs
Appearances
Tuesday, 10/8, from 4-5pm
Podcast conversation on:
Changing the Conversation, Urban Strategy in the Present Tense
(A production of Drexel's Lindy Institute)
A conversation about #VoteThatJawn with Adam Barbanel-Fried, a leader in deep canvassing.
Saturday, 10/5, at 10am
Near my grandmother's beloved house in West Collingswood, where she lived until she was 99 years old, I'll be delighted to read from Ladysitting: My Year with Nana at the End of Her Century!
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Friday, 9/6, Time TBD
National Read a Book Day at Barnes & Noble. They're putting authors in the widow, reading. Happy for a chance to sit still and read!
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Friday, 7/19, at 10am
Rosenbach Museum and Library.
As part of the fascinating citywide Monument Lab, I get to share original Black Ice documents--after we see a first edition Phyllis Wheatley!
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Thursday, 3/21, 6:30 pm
Portland Opera Company
Jubilee! libretto Reading
Culmination of the week's libretto workshop with composer Damien Geter and Portland Opera Company's wonderful young singers who taught me so much as we read, discussed--and I rewrote like jazz!
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