Recanati-Kaplan Talks
Light Skin Gone to Waste: Toni Ann Johnson in Conversation with Roxane Gay
Join the award-winning author of Light Skin Gone to Waste, Toni Ann Johnson, for a conversation with bestselling writer Roxane Gay about her engrossing, deft new story collection. Selected and edited by Gay for the 2021 Flannery O’Connor Award, Light Skin Gone to Waste chronicles the intersection of race and class in one Black family living in a white town north of New York City — and how these forces continue to haunt that family for generations. Hear Johnson and Gay discuss the book — inspired by Johnson’s own life — why race and class remain inextricable in American life, the significance of community and family in the stories we tell about our lives, and much more.
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