Horn. Please give a warm savannah welcome to jaquira diaz. [applause] hi. Thank you so much. Im so happy to be here and its wonderful to see all of you booklovers here and thank youo savannah for your southern hospitality. I also want to thank the savannah book festival and everyone who made thist event possible including sponsors, booksellers. Lets give it up for the indie room. Llers in the [applause] i love you all. Thank you for all that you do for championing writers and supportingng ordinary girls. Because of you i am here so thank you. I want to open with just a little piece that opens the book ordinary girls. It functions kind of like a prologue but not really. Its just a very short section. Girlhood. We were the girls who strolled onto the blacktop on long summer days past the voice on the courts. We were the girls on the merrygoround laughing and laughing and letting the world. Holding on for lives. The girls on the swings throwing our heads back, the wind in our hair. We wer
Cart prizes, an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant and fellowships from the mcdowell colony, the tunyan review and the wisconsin state for creative site for creative writing. She lives in miami beach with her partner. Please give a warm savannah well only to jaquira diaz. Ms. [applause] hi. Thank you so much. Im so happy to be here. And its wonderful to see all you book lovers here, and thank you, savannah, for your southern hospitality. I also want to thank the savannah book festival and everyone who made this event possiblene including sponsors, bookellers. Lets give booksellers. Lets give it up for the indie booksellers in the room. I love yall. Thank you for all you do, for loving books, for supporting ordinary girls. Because of you im here, so thank you. I want to open with just a little piece that opens the book, ordinary girls. It functions kind of like a prologue but not really. Its just a very short. Girlhood. We were the girls who strolled onto the blacktop on long summer days
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Sarah palin cancelling her campaign for donald trump after her son, todd palin, badly injured in a snow machine accident. Here in ohio, 159 proportional delegates at stake for democrats. Republicans vying for 66 win or take all delegates, and if you remember nothing else about ohios primary, remember this. No republican has won the white house without winning the buckeye state. To that end, for the first time this campaign season, mitt romney will hit the trail at 2 00 p. M. Today with the man he thinks he can take down trump. The big romney assist coming amid unprecedented violence at trumps rallies including one cancelled over security concerns, a secret Service Intervention on stage, and today, a heat argument over a confederate flag. Already out in force today and alongside new jersey governor, Chris Christie. You know, we have 5,000 people outside who cant get in. Thats crazy. Were going to campaign to get the wins to the white house. 40 minutes south from where i sit right here i