A Member of Two Tribes: An Evening with Artist and Author Emily Bowen Cohen
Thu, Nov 10
|Gertie
You’re invited to a special evening with artist and emerging author Emily Bowen Cohen, Jewish Book Council’s first Writer-in-Residence. Join The Neighborhood and Jewish Book Council at our friends Gertie in Williamsburg for a conversation, a nosh, and a preview of Emily’s forthcoming graphic novel T
Time & Location
Nov 10, 2022, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Gertie, 357 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY 11211, USA
About the event
You’re invited to a special evening with artist and emerging author Emily Bowen Cohen, Jewish Book Council’s first Writer-in-Residence. Join The Neighborhood and Jewish Book Council at our friends Gertie in Williamsburg for a conversation, a nosh, and a preview of Emily’s forthcoming graphic novel Two Tribes (Heartdrum, an imprint of Harper Collins, 2023).
About Two Tribes:
Feeling out of place both at home with her mom and new stepfather and at her Jewish day school, Mia finds herself thinking more and more about her Native American father, who lives with his new family in Oklahoma. Her mother doesn’t want to talk about him, but Mia can’t help but wonder if she’s missing a part of herself without him in her life. Mia makes a plan to use the gifts from her bat mitzvah to take a bus to Oklahoma—without telling her mom—to visit her dad, in hopes of finding the…