“Everything that I was able to write and put into this book was very liberating.” For this LIVE From NYPL event, Glory Edim talks about her decision to write Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me (Ballantine Books, 2024) and the underrepresentation of Black women in the memoir genre, as well as the complexities of memory in a conversation with Aminatou Sow.
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