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Author Talk: (S)kin w/ Ibi Zoboi
Fri, Feb 27
|Just Book-ish
Ibi Zoboi is the New York Times bestselling author of American Street, a National Book Award finalist; (S)Kin; Nigeria Jones, a Coretta Scott King Award winner and several other titles. Join us for a reading of her most recent novel, (S)kin.
Time & Location
Feb 27, 2026, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Just Book-ish, 1463 Dorchester Ave, Dorchester, MA 02122, USA
Guests
About the event
Ibi Zoboi was born in Haiti. When she was four, she immigrated to New York with her mother. Zoboi is the author of numerous titles including: (S)Kin (2025), a finalist for the 2025 National Book Award in Young Adult’s Literature; American Street (2017), which was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award in Young Adult’s Literature, a Time Magazine Best YA Book Of All Time, and a Kirkus Best Book of the Year; Pride (2018), a contemporary remix of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice; and My Life As An Ice Cream Sandwich (2020), a moving middle-grade debut of a girl finding her place in a world that’s changing at warp speed.
Zoboi is also the co-author of the Walter Award and L.A. Times Book Prize-winning Punching the Air (2021) with prison reform activist Dr. Yusef Salaam, an Exonerated Five member, which was also shortlisted for the U.K.’s Yoto Carnegie…
