In-person and livestreamed.
Join The Center For Fiction in welcoming Roxane Gay (Bad Feminist, Hunger) to launch Ani Kayode Somtochukwu’s And Then He Sang a Lullaby, the inaugural title of her new publishing imprint, Roxane Gay Books at Grove Atlantic. Somtochukwu’s enthralling debut follows God-fearing track star August on his matriculation to university, where almost everything is going well–except that August cannot stop thinking about Segun, an openly gay student who works at the cyber cafe. In Nigeria, as a new anti-gay law is passed and Segun struggles to keep their new relationship behind closed doors, the pair fight to stay together with the power of love in a difficult landscape.
Gay and Somtochukwu will discuss issues of craft, the influence of Somtochukwu’s queer liberation activism on the creation of the novel, the societal issues reflected in the story, and more.