Book talk and signing with Kalisha Buckhanon

Author Kalisha Buckhanon will talk about her latest novel, SPEAKING OF SUMMER, one of the most hotly anticipated books of the season!

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Chicago Review of Books, One of the Best New Books of the Month

BBC Culture, 1 of 10 Smartest Beach Reads of the Year

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Bustle, 1 of 50 New Books of Summer

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 of 9 Mysteries and Thrillers to Give You an Adrenaline Rush This Summer

One of Sisters in Crime's July Picks

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On a cold December evening, Autumn Spencer's twin sister, Summer, walks to the roof of their shared Harlem brownstone and is never seen again. The door to the roof is locked, and the snow holds only one set of footprints. Faced with authorities indifferent to another missing Black woman, Autumn must pursue the search for her sister all on her own.

With her friends and neighbors, Autumn pretends to hold up through the crisis. But the loss becomes too great, the mystery too inexplicable, and Autumn starts to unravel, all the while becoming obsessed with the various murders of local women and the men who kill them, thinking their stories and society's complacency toward them might shed light on what really happened to her sister.

In Speaking of Summer, critically acclaimed author Kalisha Buckhanon has created a fast-paced story of urban peril and victim invisibility, and the fight to discover the complicated truths at the heart of every family.

KALISHA BUCKHANON is the author of the novels Solemn, Conception, and Upstate, which was selected as an inaugural National Book Foundation Literature for Justice title. Her other honors include an American Library Association Alex Award, an Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowship, Pushcart Prize and Hurston/Wright Awards nominations, and a Terry McMillan Young Author Award. She also appears on Investigation Discovery, BET, and TV One as a true crime expert in cases involving women. She lives in Chicago. Find out more at kalisha.com.

PLEASE NOTE: Seating is extremely limited and available on a first come, first served basis.