Porch Stories featuring Jewell Parker Rhodes

Jewell Parker Rhodes

Please be our guest
Saturday, August 30, 2008
5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Emerald City Grill
2532 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.

Please R.S.V.P. by August 22nd
Tel: 214-670-8471
Email: Bridgett Zeno

Due to limited space, we require advanced registration for Porch Stories. The event includes stories, Q & A, live entertainment and meal purchase minimum of $10.00, payable on-site.
Award-winning author of fiction and nonfiction Jewell Parker Rhodes is a master of her craft, under-standing how both real and imagined stories can serve as a pathway to enlightenment.

Porch Stories is Rhodes's tribute to her beloved grandmother, a real account of the love she received and the lessons she learned. Jewell Parker Rhodes was left in the care of her father and his mother when her own mother abandoned the family. Grandmother Ernestine's house in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was home to four other grandchildren as well. And while its crumbling bricks, lack of air-conditioning, and neighborhood rodents meant that life was anything but easy, the family house was filled with love.

Dr. Rhodes is the author of five novels: Voodoo Dreams, Magic City, Douglass’ Women, Voodoo Season, Yellow Moon, and a memoir, Porch Stories: A Grandmother’s Guide to Happiness. Hurricane Levee Blues, a sixth novel, is forthcoming. She has authored two writing texts: Free Within Ourselves: Fiction Lessons for Black Authors and The African American Guide to Writing and Publishing Non-Fiction.