BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.getlocalhop.com//localhop-calendar//EN URL:https://api.getlocalhop.com/calendar?instance=KhFXWAMpWw&series=false BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event-instance-KhFXWAMpWw@events.getlocalhop.com SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20240328T190250Z DTSTART:20230216T000000Z DTEND:20230216T010000Z SUMMARY:How It Happens | Author Reading & Discussion LOCATION:Sterling Heights Public Library\, 40255 Dodge Park Road Sterling Heights\, MI 48313\, Programming Center DESCRIPTION:
Author of the Black History Month community read\, How It Happens\, Jean Alicia Elster\, reads from the novel based o n her maternal family history. She will discuss the book's themes and the research process in writing it.
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\nA limited number of co pies of How It Happens is available for free for Sterling Hei ghts Public Library card holders. Ebook versions are available to check ou t through Hoopla\, here. If you would like to purcha se the book\, please consider purchasing through a local bookstore on bookshop. org\, such as Oak Park\, Michigan's Book Beat.
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\nAbout the author:
\nA former attorney\, Jean Alicia Els
ter is the author of the young adult novel How It Happens (Wayne
State University Press\, September 2021). How It Happens was hono
red as a 2021 Foreword INDIES Silver Winner for Young Adult Fiction and as
a 2022 Midwest Book Award Silver Winner in Young Adult Fiction. It was al
so awarded the 2022 Bronze Medal in Young Adult Fiction by the Independent
Publisher Book Awards. Elster is also the author of middle grade books