Literature

Kia Corthron: Moon and the Mars

Reading & Conversation

Past Event

Details

$15 ($20 day of)

70 minutes

Date(s)

Wed, Jan 26, 2022

7:30pm

Contact

Box Office
888-616-0274
boxoffice@irishartscenter.org

Phone hours:
10am-6pm, Monday-Friday

In person:
Opens 60 minutes before the performance on show days

Location

Irish Arts Center 
726 11th Avenue 
Hell's Kitchen, NYC

Overview

In association with the Tenement Museum

Kia Corthron discusses her new novel examining racism, family, and identity through the eyes of Theo, a young girl growing up between the homes of her Irish and Black grandparents in the Five Points neighborhood of mid-19th century New York City.

Michael Patrick MacDonald, New York Times bestselling author of All Souls: A Family Story From Southie, moderates.

"Theo is the lone narrator in Moon and the Mars, but her voice is so rich with the locutions and grammatical tics of her joint heritage that it sounds almost choral”—WALL STREET JOURNAL

About the Artists

Kia Corthron
Michael Patrick MacDonald

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