Join us on Wednesday, September 10, at 7 pm for a book discussion of The Broken King: A Memoir, with Author and Associate Professor at Hunter College Michael Thomas. Mr. Thomas will discuss his new book with his Hunter College colleague, Associate Professor Kelvin Black. The event will take place in our Program Room, Radcliffe Building, Perrot Memorial Library.
Thomas’s memoir, The Broken King (Grove/Atlantic, 2025), about four generations of men in his family, traces the lives of these men against the backdrop of the last century-and-a-half in American history. From Reconstruction to the Jim Crow South and the Civil Rights movement, Thomas explores fathers and sons, lovers and beloved, trauma and recovery, race and deracination, success and failure, soccer, and the Boston Red Sox in a beautiful and unique memoir.
Michael Thomas is the author of The Broken King, a memoir about four generations of men in his family, and the novel Man Gone Down, winner of the prestigious International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and a New York Times Top Ten Novel of the Year. His writing has appeared in A Public Space, The New York Times, and in Ben George’s anthology, The Book of Dads. Thomas received his BA from Hunter College and his MFA from Warren Wilson College. He is a professor of English at Hunter College and lives in Brooklyn.
Registration is required. To register, click here.
Copies of Mr. Thomas’s book will be available in our catalog and for purchase from Athena Books or at the program.
For more information about Michael Thomas, visit his website.
For more information about this program, contact Lisa Thomas at 203-637-1066 x20 or lisat@perrotlibrary.org.
