Lowell Lecture
Nola Face: A Latina’s Life in the Big Easy, a book talk by author Brooke Champagne
Date & Time
March 20, 2025 at 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Location
Suffolk University, Poetry Center
Suffolk University
Poetry Center
73 Tremont Street Boston, MA 02108
Driving Directions
Speaker(s)
The author Brooke Champagne will be in conversation with Amy Monticello, associate professor and chair of the English Department at Suffolk University.
Presenting Organization
Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University
Topics
Contact
Susan H. Spurlock (sspurlock@suffolk.edu, 617 504-7297)
The hilarious, heartbreaking essays in this collection trace the evolutions of this girlhood of competing languages, ethnicities, aesthetics, politics, and class constraints against the backdrop of a boozy New Orleans upbringing. In these essays, Champagne and members of her family love poorly and hate well, whip and get whipped, pray and curse in two languages, steal from “The Man” and give to themselves, kiss where it hurts, poke where it hurts worse, and keep and spill each other’s secrets—first face-to-face, then on the page. They believe, doubt, and reckon with the stories they tell about themselves and where they come from, finally becoming most human and most alive in their connections to one another.