PAST EVENTS

PELICAN GIRLS WITH JULIA MALYE
Wednesday May 15 2024 - 7:00 p.m. - The Red Wheelbarrow

Julia Malye will be joining The Red Wheelbarrow to discuss her novel Pelican Girls. Inspired by a true story, this stunning story captures the never-before-told journey of the Baleine Brides: a ship full of young women plucked from a Paris asylum and sent to marry settlers in North America's rough Louisiana Territory. Among this group are three unlikely friends: a sharp-tongued twelve-year old orphan, a mute ‘madwoman,’ and an accused abortionist. Charlotte, Pétronille, and Geneviève, along with the dozens of other women aboard La Baleine, have no knowledge of what lies ahead and no control over their futures. Strangers brought together by fate, these brave and fierce young women will face extraordinary adversity—pirates, slavedrivers, sickness, war—but also the private trauma of heartbreak and unrequited love, children born and lost, cruelty and unexpected pleasure, and a friendship forged in fire that will sustain through the years.

Glorious Exploits with Ferdia Lennon & Nafkote Tamirat
Thursday May 16 2024 - 7:00 p.m.
Told in a contemporary Irish voice and as riotously funny as it is deeply moving, Glorious Exploits is an unforgettable ode to the power of art in a time of war, brotherhood in a time of enmity, and human will throughout the ages. On the island of Sicily amid the Peloponnesian War, the Syracusans have figured out what to do with the surviving Athenians who had the gall to invade their city: they’ve herded the sorry prisoners of war into a rock quarry and left them to rot.

BOOK LAUNCH! MISS MORGANS BOOK BRIGADE WITH JANET SKESLIEN CHARLES
Thursday June 6 2024 - 7:00 p.m.
In WWI France, just miles from the front, an international group of women band together to rebuild villages and save civilians when bombs start to fall. Librarian Jessie Carson changes the literary landscape of France by bringing solace and children's libraries to war-torn areas as well as to Paris.

December 14, 2018

Saturday | December 15 2018 | 6pm

December 14, 2018/ Penelope Fletcher

BOOK SIGNING
TEJAN KAREFA-SMART
NEPHEW & PROTAGONIST

JAMES BALDWIN’s nephew, Téjan Karefa-Smart, will be at the Red Wheelbarrow Bookstore to speak of his infamous uncle's only children's publication for which he was the inspiration.

"It is not the Black child's language that is in question, it is not his language that is despised: It is his experience. A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. A child cannot be taught by anyone whose demand, essentially, is that the child repudiate his experience, and all that gives him sustenance, and enter a limbo in which he will no longer be Black, and in which he knows that he can never become white. Black people have lost too many Black children that way." – James Baldwin

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Anglophone bookstore based in Paris

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PAST EVENTS

PELICAN GIRLS WITH JULIA MALYEWednesday May 15 2024 - 7:00 p.m. - The Red Wheelbarrow

The Red Wheelbarrow

PELICAN GIRLS WITH JULIA MALYE
Wednesday May 15 2024 - 7:00 p.m. - The Red Wheelbarrow