One Book, One Salem Book Club with Prof. Keja Valens

Meet us in the garden for book club!

We know you're all reading The Cemetery of Untold Stories for One Book, One Salem selection in preparation Julia Alvarez's visit to Salem Lit Fest on September 7. Her conversation partner at Lit Fest, Professor Keja Valens from Salem State, will lead an informal discussion of The Cemetery of Untold Stories, as a prelude to Julia’s appearance.

Keja Valens is Professor of English at Salem State University. She teaches and writes on Caribbean literatures, multiethnic American literatures, and food writing. Her books include Culinary Colonialism, Caribbean Cookbooks, and Recipes for National Independence, Desire between Women in Caribbean Literature and the co-edited collection Passing Lines: Sexuality and Immigration. She is currently working on essays on Puerto Rican food sovereignty and “What to Eat after a Hurricane.” When not teaching or writing, she gardens, cooks, and eats.

Please enter by the Athenaeum garden gate on Botts Ct.
(The front door will be locked at 6:00 pm.)
Please bring a folding lawn chair if you have one.
In case of rain, the salon will be indoors.