Join Wake County Public Libraries in the Park for an afternoon of reading.

1 p.m. Kwame Mbalia, award-winning and best-selling author of the Tristan Strong trilogy and editor of New York Times Best-Seller, Black Boy Joy: 17 Stories Celebrating Black Boyhood.

2:30 p.m. Award-winning journalist, author, and North Carolina Piedmont Laureate Steven Petrow shares his newly released book, The Joy You Make: Find the Silver Linings–Even on Your Darkest Days.

4 p.m. Vanessa Miller will read from and discuss The American Queen, a historical novel featuring a strong Black woman who became Queen in post-bellum South.

Book signing will commence in the Academy Pavilion after each event.

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