Wandaâs Picks for May 2021
Wandaâs Picks for May 2021
May 10, 2021
A stunning radio play adaptation of the 50-year-old debut novel by Toni Morrison, âThe Bluest Eye,â is epitomized in this painting. Protagonist Pecola Breedlove âis obsessed with Shirley Temple and a desire to have blue eyes,â according to the Aurora Theatre Company. The play explores âthe emotional depths of Black girlhood, the poisonous effects of racism, and the heartbreak of shame.âÂ
by Bay View Arts and Culture Editor Wanda Sabir
Happy Motherâs Day to all the mothers and motherkind who nurture and take care of our future citizens! As the pandemic continues to rage through our communities, we hope everyone stays safe and for those who have transcended this world: Aá¹£e, Aá¹£e, Aá¹£e-o. FYI: Libations for Prayers for African Ancestors of the Middle Passage is June 12, 9 a.m. PT, on Facebook @maafabayarea.
Scott Thomas Anderson April 30, 2021Updated: April 30, 2021, 2:59 pm
An audience member questions a speaker during the 2018 Bay Area Book Festival. Photo: Lorenzo Fernandez / Kopec Photographer 2018
When the Bay Area Book Festival goes virtual again this year, it will do so in the wake of an isolating period that showed just how much books bring imaginative relief, build empathetic bonds and offer a communal bridge back to one another.
Some of its events are to set focus on those very lessons, with award-winning authors examining how storytelling helped Americans escape 2020’s gloom and anxiety, or travel oceans away from the rooms that they were worried about stepping out of.
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My Old Home: A Novel of Exile that was 40 years in the making. Credit: Orville Schell
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By Cherilyn Parsons
After 17 nonfiction books and countless articles, longtime Berkeley resident, journalist and China expert Orville Schell has published a novel,
My Old Home: A Novel of Exile. Forty years in the making, the novel follows a Western-trained Chinese classical musician and his son, Little Li, through China’s tumult from 1949 when Mao summoned overseas Chinese back to the Motherland to help build a new society to the crushing of intellectual, artistic and individual life during the Cultural Revolution, and ultimately to the 1989 massacre at Tiananmen Square.