The Center for Fiction welcomes back American Book Award-winning author Emily Raboteau (The Professor’s Daughter, Searching for Zion) to discuss her new highly-anticipated collection of essays, Lessons of Survival: Mothering Against “the Apocalypse.” In this powerful work that is “as layered and magnificent as essayistic-writing gets” (Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy), Raboteau reflects on the intersectional fights for environmental and racial justice through the lens of motherhood. Her book is a moving exploration of what it takes to raise children to thrive in a world of inequities, without coming undone. Raboteau is joined by essayist Garnette Cadogan for a rich conversation on her work, in which she will also share some photographs from the book.

Co-sponsored by Orion Magazine and the Climate Museum.

After the conversation, Raboteau will sign books.