With her tonight. And we also are very excited to announce that this very new book has already released as number eight on the New York Times best seller list. [applause] and number 88 on usa today. So with that layla, welcome. Thank you so much. Very happy to be here. Are you on . Here it comes. Can you hear me . Try again. Can you hear me . No. Will you grab the third myth. Sorry about that. Thats okay. Sudden technical never happened before. Its because the tv is here. So, you can hear me, right . Ill ask a question and hand this mic over to layla so she can hear you. So, im going to start with this really fascinating workbook and book and a really great exploration of the topic of that we are all bed to talk but more tonight, but in this boom youre asking white people, in particularly white people in the United States, like me, to confront the racism. You say outright you know this can be ununcomfortable process. What motivate you to tackle this as a write center. Yes, so, its so i
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And this is a lovely opportunity for us and i knew nothing about and i thought i knew just about everything. But also an explanation into the unexplored side of this incredible history. And so much of that time of those refugees and then in the beginning of the book. Thank you so much. Thank you for inviting me. So cheryl said its not what i expected. I think its not what people expect is i tried to tell a very intimate history of the daughter and father of just my life and relationship with other people as well as scholarly footnotes were everything is researched very carefully and begins with an intimate introduction and this is and introduction about my life. So i will just jump in and then we can talk some more. My parents, siblings and maternal grandmother were at home. We used to call the woman with wrinkly skin and sharp blue eyes like my fathers, my father had been separated for him his mother during the war and then years later lived with him then with my mother and him and th
Her partner please give a warm savanna welcome to jacquira diaz. Thank you so much. I am so happy to be here and its wonderful to see all of you book lovers here. And thank you savanna for your southern hospitality. I also want to thank the savanna book festival and everyone who made this event possible lets give it up to the indie booksellers in the room. I love you all. Thank you for all that you do for loving books and championing writers. Because of you im here. Thank you. I want to open with a just the just a little piece that opens the book it functions like we were the girls who strolled onto the blacktop. Going towards the boards letting the world spin. The wind in our hair. We were the loud moms and the troublemakers. We were at the party girls. Hitting the clubs in height top jordans. We where the wild girls who loved music and dancing. Girls who were black and brown and poor and queer girls who love each other. I had been those girls on a greyhound bus. Homeless and on the r