Caribbean-American fiction writer Tiphanie Yanique comes back to the festival in this online talk about her much-anticipated new book, Monster in the Middle.  This romance between Fly, a musician, and Stela, a science teacher, in New York City, is interspersed with tales of their ancestors’ past loves and losses, in the Virgin Islands, Ghana and the United States. She will be in conversation with her editor from Riverhead Sarah McGrath.

All authors appear for free and the best way you can support them is to buy their book. This book is available for pre-order from Festival partner Watchung Booksellers here. The book is out on October 19.

Tiphanie Yanique is the author of the award-winning novel Land of Love and Drowning, as well as the poetry collection Wife. Winner of the 2014 Center for Fiction First Novel award, and a National Book Foundation 5 under 35 honoree, she has also received a Rona Jaffe Award and a Fulbright scholarship. Her short fiction has been published in The New Yorker and anthologized in Best American Short Stories 2020. Originally from the Virgin Islands, she now lives in Atlanta, where she is a professor at Emory University.

This event is part of Succeed2gether’s Montclair Literary Festival.

Any proceeds from the festival benefit parent organization, Montclair-based non-profit Succeed2gether, which offers after-school one-on-one tutoring and enrichment classes with the aim of closing the education and opportunity gaps in Essex County, NJ. You can read more about Succeed2gether and the festival at www.succeed2gether.org.

The festival organizing committee wishes to thank event partners Montclair Public Library and Watchung Booksellers, and festival sponsors Rao's, West of Hudson Realty Group, Montclair State University, Jill Williams (Ameriprise Financial), Ferguson Dental, the County of Essex, and community members.

Tiphanie Yanique 'Monster in the Middle'