Ta-Nehisi Coates is the author of The Beautiful Struggle, We Were Eight Years in Power, and Between the World and Me, which won the National Book Award in 2015. MORE ABOUT THE SPEAKERS AND OUR EVENT PARTNERS:

Free book and event entry available to the first 500 current UCSC students.

Shipped-to-You: $27 (plus Eventbrite fees).In-store Pickup: $22 (plus Eventbrite fees).TICKETING INFO: All tickets include one paperback copy of The Water Dancer, plus entry to the virtual event. This is bold, dazzling, and not to be missed.” - Publishers Weekly, starred review “In prose that sings and imagination that soars, Coates further cements himself as one of this generation’s most important writers, tackling one of America’s oldest and darkest periods with grace and inventiveness. Their conversation will include the state of our country post-election, truth telling, and the idea that stories and mythology can persuade and change attitudes when facts alone cannot. Pacific.īestselling author Ta-Nehisi Coates ( Between the World and Me) will discuss his acclaimed novel The Water Dancer (in paperback November 17th) with Adam Serwer, staff writer at The Atlantic, at a ticketed virtual event.

Bookshop Santa Cruz, The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz, and Marcus Books present: A virtual event with Ta-Nehisi Coates, in conversation with Adam Serwer, on Friday, November 20th, at 6:00 p.m.

Author of the water dancer