He can’t wait until he’s old enough to leave. He witnesses racial profiling, graffitied swastikas, and White Power signs on his walk home from school.
To Harry, they represent everything wrong with this country. They’re racist, xenophobic, financially incompetent, and they have quite a few secrets of their own. Harry Sylvester Bird grows up in Edward, Pennsylvania, with his parents, Wayne and Chevy, whom he greatly dislikes. "Disarmingly funny." - The New York Timesįrom the award-winning author of Under the Udala Trees and Happiness, Like Water comes a brilliant, provocative, up-to-the-minute satirical novel about a young white man’s education and miseducation in contemporary America.
**This event is free to attend, but please RSVP below to let us know you're coming! You can purchase the book from Loyalty below or borrow a copy from MCPL, and we will have additional copies for sale at the event. McGee (Silver Spring) Library in downtown Silver Spring. Join Loyalty Bookstores and Montgomery County Public Library for an in-person event with Chinelo Okparanta and Tope Folarin for the recent release of Harry Sylvester Bird ! This event will take place in the third floor meeting room at the Brigadier General Charles E.
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