Happy belated book birthday to Jessica (J.L.) Powers whose book, This Thing Called the Future, was officially launched on May 1st. http://jlpowers.net/this-thing-called-the-future/
Jessica was in my Picture Book Certificate class at Vermont College of Fine Arts.
From our beloved professor, Sarah Ellis, this summary:
“J.L. Powers takes the challenges and sorrows of contemporary South Africa and renders them powerfully immediate in the character of Khosi, a girl negotiating coming of age in her post-apartheid, AIDS-ravaged country. Provocative, unvarnished, loving.” –Sarah Ellis, professor in the Vermont College MFA program in Writing for Children and Young Adults, and reviewer for The Horn Book and the New York Times.
J.L. Powers was conceived in northern Kenya, grew up in the big bad border town of El Paso, Texas, and eats jalapeños on everything—but that doesn’t mean she was able to stomach the fiery pepper of Mozambique known as the piri-piri! About ten years ago, she became so obsessed with South Africa that she got not one but two master’s degrees in African history. She’s so confused by now that when she tries to speak Spanish, she ends up speaking Zulu instead. This Thing Called the Future is her second young adult novel.
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Jessica writes:
This is my husband, Chris, reading to our then six-week-old son, Nesta.
The sender of this terrific photo, J. L. Powers, is the author of two recent books: The Confessional and This Thing Called the Future. Thanks J. L., and good luck with the writing life. It looks like you’ve got the reading life pretty much under control.
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