Well-Read Black Girl Book Club: Electric Arches

NOW READING
Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing

LOCATION
New Woman Space is located conveniently in North Brooklyn, two blocks from the Graham L, a 10-minute walk from the Metropolitan L, G subway station.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Eve L. Ewing is a writer, scholar, artist, and educator from Chicago. Her work has appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Nation, The Atlantic, and many other venues. She is a sociologist at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration.

ABOUT THE BOOK
“This book is a gift, a visual and lyrical offering to be treasured as gospel.”
–Morgan Parker, author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé

“Eve L. Ewing’s Electric Arches is one of the mpas to our survival.”
–Ross Gay, author of Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

Electric Arches is an imaginative exploration of Black girlhood and womanhood through poetry, visual art, and narrative prose.

Blending stark realism with the surreal and fantastic, Eve L. Ewing’s narrative takes us from the streets of 1990s Chicago to an unspecified future, deftly navigating the boundaries of space, time, and reality. Ewing imagines familiar figures in magical circumstances―blues legend Koko Taylor is a tall-tale hero; LeBron James travels through time and encounters his teenage self. She identifies everyday objects―hair moisturizer, a spiral notebook―as precious icons.

Her visual art is spare, playful, and poignant―a cereal box decoder ring that allows the wearer to understand what Black girls are saying; a teacher’s angry, subversive message scrawled on the chalkboard. Electric Arches invites fresh conversations about race, gender, the city, identity, and the joy and pain of growing up.