5pm reception, 5:30pm program, followed by book sale & signing

Sand and stone are Earth’s fragmented memory. Yet each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. In this provocative mosaic of historical inquiry and personal journeys across a continent and time, Savoy, woman of African American, Euro-American, and Native American heritage, explores how we are shaped by memory in place and how the country’s still unfolding history marks a person as well as the land. From twisted terrain within the San Andreas Fault zone to a South Carolina plantation, from national parks to burial grounds, from “Indian Territory” and the U.S.-Mexico Border to the U.S. capital, Trace grapples with a searing national history to reveal the often unvoiced presence of the past.

Trace has just been shortlisted for the 2016 PEN Open Book Award. Read an interview with Lauret in the Pen Ten here.

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