NoViolet Bulawayo is the author of Booker-Prize nominated novel, We Need New Names, which tells the story of young girl and her friends as they grow up in a shanty-town in Zimbabwe. That young girl, by the name of Darling, eventually manages to escape to suburban America and must deal with the consequences of leaving everything she knows behind for this unfamiliar land. This reading is a part of the Zell Visiting Writer’s Series an will take place tomorrow (2/11) at 5:30 in the basement auditorium in UMMA and will be followed by a book-signing. There will also be a question and answer section at 2:00 in the Hopwood Room in Angell Hall.
