CODA Author Kambri Crews Coming to Texas
Note: All events are in Year 2012.
Kambri Crews, CODA author of Burn Down the Ground: A Memoir (Random
House), will be signing books, taking questions from the audience, and
reading from her memoir at free events throughout Texas.
Burn Down the Ground is Crews’ powerful, affecting, and unflinching
memoir about her unconventional childhood living with deaf parents in a
tin shed in rural Texas, and her attempts to reconcile that harrowing
childhood to her present life—one in which her father is serving a
twenty-year sentence in a maximum-security prison for attempted murder.
Crews now runs her own PR and production company in New York City. A
renowned storyteller and public speaker, she has performed in New York
at The Moth’s Mainstage, The 92Y, UCB Theatre, SXSW (South by
Southwest) and given speeches at high schools, universities and
DeafHope, a nonprofit dedicated to ending domestic and sexual violence
against deaf women and children.
Crews’s memoir has received rave reviews from publications including
Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, Glamour, ELLE magazine,
and Library Journal. Crews will appear at the following events:
FRI, APR 13 @ 7PM
Tarrant County College’s Deaf Awareness Month
Tarrant County College Trinity River Campus
TRTR Level 4, Energy Room
300 Trinity Campus Circle
Fort Worth, TX 76102
FREE! Sponsored by Signum Lingua ASL Club. Come see amazing and fun
Deaf acts! Concessions for sale. Doors open at 6:30. I will tell a
story and have books to sell & sign after the show.
SAT, APR 14 @ 9AM – 4PM
North Texas Book Festival
Center for Visual Arts
400 E Hickory Street
Denton, TX 76201-4222
I will be selling & signing copies of Burn Down the Ground: A Memoir.
Also, at 11:45 AM, I’m scheduled to tell a short story and read from my
book. MY PEFORMANCE IS NOT ASL INTERPRETED.
SUN, APR 15 @ 2PM – 3:30PM
Full Circle Books
1900 NW Expressway
Oklahoma City, OK
FREE! I will tell a story, read from my book & have a Q&A. I will also
have books to sell & sign. ASL interpretation will be provided!
SAT, APR 21 @ 2PM – 4PM
Cork This! Winery
Montgomery, TX
FREE! $4 wine for teachers. I will sell and sign copies of my memoir
and generally mix & mingle during the Texas Bluebonnet Wine & Cheese
Trail.
SAT, JUN 30 @ 2PM
Fort Worth Public Library
Details to come!
FREE! I will tell a story, read from my book & have a Q&A. I will also
have books to sell & sign. ASL interpretation will be provided!
SUN, JUL 1 @ 2PM – 3PM
Barnes & Noble
861 NE Mall Blvd
Hurst, TX 76053
817-284-1244
FREE! I will tell a story, read from my book & have a Q&A. I will also
have books to sell & sign. ASL interpretation will be provided!
PRAISE FOR BURN DOWN THE GROUND:
“Poignant and unsettling.” —Kirkus Reviews
“A compelling testament to the strength of the human spirit.”—Booklist
“Crews’ account (the title refers to lighting brush on fire to clear
out snakes) is as well-paced and stirring as a novel. In her fluid
narrative (she’s also a storyteller on the side, a gig that helped her
develop this book), Crews neither wallows in self-pity nor plays for
cheap black-comedic yuks. Instead, this book stands out for what
matters most: Crews’ story, bluntly told.” —Elle magazine
“Harrowing…A remarkable odyssey of scorched earth, collateral damage,
and survival.” —Publishers Weekly
*Read a FREE excerpt *
For more information about Kambri Crews, visit
http://www.kambricrews.com .
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*View pictures of the tin shed*
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