When You Get Older: Book Discussion
Wed, Jul 05
|Sankofa Video, Books, & Café
We're chatting with Gabriel Gaiusbayode about his new book of poetry When You Get Older!


Time & Location
Jul 05, 2023, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Sankofa Video, Books, & Café, 2714 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
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About The Event
About the book:
My Brother has lost his daughter. . . at least in proximity
More like she was stolen. They call it custody, a term used for prisoners, but maybe it's all one and the same with these unjust systems we're forced to live with, vindictive mothers we're forced to accept.
When You Get Older is an emotional story told through poems of a bright young uncle and his relationship with his older brother and niece. Due to his parents' absence throughout his life, he's always looked up to his older brother like a father figure— and his niece is more like a little sister to him.
He wouldn't change this family dynamic for anything.
But it's not meant to last, and fate tears their family apart. After a period of separation where he questions himself and life, will he be able to find a way to bring back the family he…
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