Terry McMillan will be in conversation with Victoria Kennedy about her book, It’s Not All Downhill from Here.

 

Featuring an unforgettable ensemble of strong, dynamic women, It’s Not All Downhill From Here shows it’s never too late to become who you want to be, that family is worth fighting for, and that our best days are yet to come.

 

Terry McMillan is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of I Almost Forgot About You, Waiting to Exhale, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, A Day Late and a Dollar Short, The Interruption of Everything, I Almost Forgot About You, and the editor of Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction. Four of Ms. McMillan’s novels have been made into movies: Waiting to Exhale (Twentieth Century Fox, 1995); How Stella Got Her Groove Back (Twentieth Century Fox, 1998); Disappearing Acts (HBO Pictures, 1999); and A Day Late and a Dollar Short (Lifetime, 2014). She lives in California.

 

Victoria Kennedy is a Baltimore-based writer whose work engages in the complexities of Black Love. She has written two novels, a short story collection (one of which has been adapted into a stage play) and her work is included in three anthologies. She is also the founder of Zora’s Den, a social/support group for Black women writers. Victoria is an MFA graduate of the University of Baltimore Creative Writing & Publishing Arts program. She is always at work on something new.

 

ASL interpretation will be available to attendees.

 

Visit https://www.theivybookshop.com/ to order your copies of It’s Not All Downhill from Here.

 

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