Watermark Books & Café is excited to welcome Peace Adzo Medie for her newest book, Nightbloom! This novel is a riveting depiction of class and family in Ghana, a compelling exploration of memory, and an eye-opening story of life that follows Selasi and Akorfa and the strength of female bonds in the face of societies that would prefer to silence women. Peace will be joined in conversation by Watermark Bookseller Shane Grebel. Join us for this event on Thursday, June 15th at 6:00pm CT in-store or on Facebook Live! RSVP at the button below.
This event is part of our International Voices series, which focuses on narratives that follow families that span generations and countries. These stories are beautiful and complex, showcasing families and how they survive over hundreds of years. Join us for our first event of the series with Janika Oza, author of A History of Burning on Tuesday, May 23rd at 6:00pm CT at Watermark Books & Café. Join us for our second event of the series with Peace Adzo Medie, author of Nightbloom on Thursday, June 15th at 6:00pm CT, also at Watermark Books & Café.
About Peace Adzo Medie
Peace Adzo Medie’s debut novel, His Only Wife, was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, a New York Times Notable Book of 2020, and a Time Magazine Must-Read Book of 2020. It was also a Reese’s Book Club pick. Her book, Global Norms and Local Action: The Campaigns to End Violence Against Women in Africa, was published by Oxford University Press in 2020. She has won numerous awards for her scholarship and has held several fellowships, including the Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellowship. She holds a PhD in public and international affairs from the University of Pittsburgh and a BA in geography from the University of Ghana.
This author is represented by the Hachette Speakers Bureau.
About Nightbloom
Peace Adzo Medie, author of Reese’s Book Club pick His Only Wife, returns with a moving novel about the unbreakable power of female friendship.
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When Selasi and Akorfa were young girls in Ghana, they were more than just cousins; they were inseparable. Selasi was exuberant and funny, Akorfa quiet and studious. They would do anything for each other, imploring their parents to let them be together, sharing their secrets and desires and private jokes.
Then Selasi begins to change, becoming hostile and quiet; her grades suffer and she builds a space around herself, shutting Akorfa out. Meanwhile, Akorfa is accepted to an American university with the goal of becoming a doctor. Although hopeful that she can create a fuller life as a woman in America, she discovers the insidious ways that racism places obstacles in her path once she leaves Ghana. It takes a crisis to bring the friends back together, with Selasi’s secret revealed and Akorfa forced to reckon with her role in their estrangement.
A riveting depiction of class and family in Ghana, a compelling exploration of memory, and an eye-opening story of life as an African-born woman in the United States, Nightbloom is above all a gripping and beautifully written novel attesting to the strength of female bonds in the face of societies that would prefer to silence women.
