[Yale-readings] Emily Raboteau at Yale Bookstore on March 24

[Nancy Kuhl]

>Contact:       Richard G. Carlson
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>Yale Bookstore
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>Emily Raboteau at The Yale Bookstore on March 24 with Novel Set at Yale
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>What:              Emily Raboteau reading from and signing copies of her 
>novel, The Professor’s Daughter
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>When:             Thursday, March 24, 2005 at 6:00 p.m.
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>Where:            The Yale Bookstore, 77 Broadway, New Haven, CT
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>About The Book:  A daughter’s future and her father’s past converge in The 
>Professor’s Daughter, an explosive first novel exploring identity, 
>assimilation, and the legacy of race.  When Emma Boudreaux’s older 
>brother, Bernie, winds up in a coma after a freak accident, it’s as if she 
>loses a part of herself.  All their lives, he has served as her compass, 
>her stronger, better half:  Bernie was brilliant when Emma was smart, 
>charismatic when she was awkward, and confident when she was shy.  Only 
>Bernie was able to navigate­if not always diplomatically­the terrain of 
>their biracial identity.  Now, as the chronic rash that’s flared up 
>throughout her life returns with a vengeance, Emma is sleepwalking through 
>her first year at Yale, left alone to grow into herself.  Thje key to 
>Emma’s self-discovery lies in her father’s past.  Esteemed Zprinceton 
>professor Bernard Boudreaux II is emotionally absent and secretive about 
>his family history.  Little do his children know just how haunted that 
>history is, how tortured the path from Deep South to Ivy League has 
>been.  Disconnected from their father, Bernie and Emma are 
>searching.  Emma looks for meaning inside books; Bernie looks to their 
>family roots.  Eventually, Bernie’s dark obsession with his namesake leads 
>to his own destruction.  Though her father and brother are bound by the 
>past, Emma might just escape.  The Professor’s Daughter marks the arrival 
>of an astonishingly original voice that surges with energy and purpose.
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>About The Author:  Emily Raboteau holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from 
>New York University, where she was a New York Times Fellow.  She is the 
>recipient of a Pushcart Prize, the Chicago Tribune’s Nelson Algren Award 
>for Short Fiction, and a New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship.  Her 
>stories have been published in Tin House, The Missouri Review, and The 
>Best American Short Stories 2003.  She lives in Brooklyn and teaches 
>creative writing at the City College of New York.
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>About the Yale Bookstore:   The Yale Bookstore, a Barnes and Noble College 
>Bookstore, is located at 77 Broadway at York Square, New Haven, CT, 06511, 
>(203) 777-8440, www.yalebookstore.com.  All events are free and open to 
>the public.  The bookstore offers a wide selection of bestsellers, titles 
>by Yale and local authors, Yale course books and emblematic merchandise, 
>dorm supplies, gifts, stationery and Clinique products.  The Yale 
>Bookstore Cafe serves Java U Coffee and snacks.
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