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Un ejercicio de escritura guiada con un giro.
Porque escribir da mucha sed.

Toma una copa. Escribe una historia. Toma otra copa. Escribe una historia mejor.

La Feria del Libro de Miami presenta First Draft, una serie de eventos informales de escritura que convierten las horas felices en grandes historias.

Theme: Memories (The Big Read 2020 Special Edition)
Instructor: Lorene Cary

Estás inspirado. Pero también tienes sed. Pasa por un evento de First Draft para tomar algo (el primero corre por cuenta de la casa) y una consigna de escritura guiada. Comparte tu escritura. ¡Nunca sabes qué podrías crear mientras te sirves otra ronda!

Lorene Cary is author of the memoir Black Ice, three novels, and a book for young readers. She teaches at the University of Pennsylvania and has written a one-act opera of Ladysitting and a play, My General Tubman. She lives in Philadelphia.

The first 30 people to arrive will receive a free copy of Lorene Cary’s Ladysitting: My Year with Nana at the End of Her Century

Acerca de Ladysitting: Lorene Cary’s grandmother moves in, and everything changes: day-to-day life, family relationships, the Nana she knew—even their shared past. From cherished memories of weekends she spent as a child with her indulgent Nana to the reality of the year she spent “ladysitting” her now frail grandmother, Lorene Cary journeys through stories of their time together and five generations of their African American family. Brilliantly weaving a narrative of her complicated yet transformative relationship with Nana—a fierce, stubborn, and independent woman, who managed a business until she was 100—Cary looks at Nana’s impulse to control people and fate, from the early death of her mother and oppression in the Jim Crow South to living on her own in her New Jersey home. Cary knew there might be some reckonings to come. Nana was a force: Her obstinacy could come out in unanticipated ways—secretly getting a driver’s license to show up her husband, carrying on a longtime feud with Cary’s father. But Nana could also be devoted: to Nana’s father, to black causes, and—Cary had thought—to her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Facing the inevitable end raises tensions, with Cary drawing on her spirituality and Nana consoling herself with late-night sweets and the loyalty of caregivers. When Nana doubts Cary’s dedication, Cary must go deeper into understanding this complicated woman. In Ladysitting, Cary captures the ruptures, love, and, perhaps, forgiveness that can occur in a family as she bears witness to her grandmother’s 101 vibrant years of life.