Author Kambri Crews at the Fort Worth Library
Author Kambri Crews Coming to Fort Worth Library
North Richland Hills Native to Read, Sign Books & Answer Questions About Her Memoir
Fort Worth, Texas — The Fort Worth Library is pleased to welcome Kambri Crews, author of Burn Down the Ground: A Memoir (Random House) on Saturday, June 30, at 2PM. Crews will be signing books, taking questions from the audience, and reading from her memoir as part of the library’s Summer Reading Series. Crews will also appear at the Northeast Mall Barnes and Noble in Hurst, Texas, on Sunday, July 1st at 3PM.
Burn Down the Ground is Crews’ powerful, affecting, and unflinching memoir about her unconventional childhood living with deaf parents in a tin shed in rural Texas (Crews is not deaf), and her attempts to reconcile that harrowing childhood to her present life—one in which her father is serving a twenty-year sentence in a maximum-security prison for attempted murder.
A Texas native, Crews now runs her own PR and production company in New York City. A renowned storyteller and public speaker, she has performed in New York at The Moth’s Mainstage, The 92Y, UCB Theatre, and Gotham Comedy Club, and given speeches at SXSW (South by Southwest) and DeafHope, a nonprofit dedicated to ending domestic and sexual violence against deaf women and children.
Crews’s memoir has received praise from esteemed publications such as Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, ELLE magazine, and Library Journal.
SAT, JUN 30 @ 2PM – 3:30PM
Fort Worth Public Library
500 W 3rd Street
Fort Worth, Texas
FREE! Kambri will tell a story, read from her book, conduct a Q&A and sign copies of her memoir. Books will be available for purchase. ASL interpretation will be provided!
SUN, JUL 1 @ 3PM – 4:30PM
Barnes & Noble
861 NE Mall Blvd
Hurst, TX 76053
817-284-1244
FREE! Kambri will tell a story, read from her book, conduct a Q&A and sign copies of her memoir. Books will be available for purchase. ASL interpretation will be provided upon request. Email Kambri@KambriCrews.com.
PRAISE FOR BURN DOWN THE GROUND:
“Poignant and unsettling.” —Kirkus Reviews
“A compelling testament to the strength of the human spirit.”—Booklist
“Crews’ account (the title refers to lighting brush on fire to clear out snakes) is as well-paced and stirring as a novel. In her fluid narrative (she’s also a storyteller on the side, a gig that helped her develop this book), Crews neither wallows in self-pity nor plays for cheap black-comedic yuks. Instead, this book stands out for what matters most: Crews’ story, bluntly told.” —Elle magazine
“Harrowing…A remarkable odyssey of scorched earth, collateral damage, and survival.” —Publishers Weekly
*Read a FREE excerpt * *Read reviews & blurbs* *View pictures of the tin shed*
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