Book Event - Finding Jupiter
Sat, Apr 26
|Sankofa Video, Books & Cafe
Join Author Kelis Rowe in conversation with Brianna Peppins as they discuss her book, Finding Jupiter, a heartfelt journey of self-discovery and personal growth. Don’t miss the chance to explore the powerful themes of the book with the author herself!
Time & Location
Apr 26, 2025, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Sankofa Video, Books & Cafe, 2714 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
About The Event
About the book
Finding Jupiter (Crown, May 31, 2022) is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection, September 2023 Pick for The Assembly on Literature for Adolescents’ ALAN Review, a Bank Street Best Children’s Book of 2023, a Michigan State Book List selection and the 2023-2024 winner of the Keystone to Reading Pennsylvania State Book Award in the High School category. Perfect for fans of Twenty-Four Seconds From Now by Jason Reynolds, Love and Basketball, anything ever written by Liara Tamani or Jandy Nelson, and Beyoncé.
It examines paternal conditional love and absence and how it affects the way young people show up in life and in love. Finding Jupiter is a bright addition to the growing canon of contemporary stories that depict the tender interior lives of sensitive Black American teen girls and boys and that center their humanity as they navigate first loves and first times. It includes journal pages…
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