Anne Akabori
January 19 @ 11:00 a.m., Hearthside Lounge
Book: The Gift of Life

Sarah Ladipo Manyika
February 21 @ 12 noon, Hearthside Lounge
Book: In Dependence

Daniel Seddiqui
February 29 @ 12 noon, Hearthside Lounge
Book: 50 Jobs in 50 States

William Carter
March 6 @ 1:30 p.m., Hearthside Lounge
Book: Causes and Spirits

Graciela Tiscareno-Sato
March 13 @ 11:00 a.m., Hearthside Lounge
Book: Latinnovating

Julia Flynn Siler
April 17 @ 12 noon, Hearthside Lounge
Book: Lost Kingdom: Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America's First Imperial Adventure

National Poetry Month Event
April 25 @ 1:30 p.m., Hearthside Lounge

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Sarah Ladipo Manyika

February 21, 2012 @ 12:00 noon
in the Campus Center, Hearthside Lounge
(Parking is $2. See campus map.)

Sarah Ladipo Manyika was raised in Nigeria and has lived in Kenya, France, and England. Her debut novel, In Dependence, was published in the US this year. She currently teaches at San Francisco State University and is working on her second novel. Sarah earned her PhD from U.C. Berkeley. She has published short stories and essays, and has been a judge for various literary prizes/awards. She is also a Hedgebrook alum and on the Board at MoAD (Museum of the African Diaspora).

About the Book: It is the early-sixties when a young Tayo Ajayi sails to England from Nigeria to take up a scholarship at Oxford University. In this city of dreaming spires, he finds himself among a generation high on visions of a new and better world. The whole world seems ablaze with change: independence at home, the Civil Rights movement and the first tremors of cultural and sexual revolutions. It is then that Tayo meets Vanessa Richardson, the beautiful daughter of an ex-colonial officer. "In Dependence" is Tayo and Vanessa's story of a brave but bittersweet love affair. It is the story of two people struggling to find themselves and each other a story of passion and idealism, courage and betrayal, and the universal desire to fall, madly, deeply, in love.

Authors Series books are available at the Foothill College Bookstore, and can be purchased at a 20% discount.