Events & Author Appearances

Oct
15
Hey Liberal!: Panel
Shawn Shiflett
57th Street Books, 1301 E 57th St, Chicago, IL 60637 (map it)
Saturday, October 15, 2016 - 3:00pm

Join author Shawn Shiflett for a discussion panel and Q&A with Christine Sneed on the role virginity plays in their books. The discussion panel will include a short reading from Shawn Shiflett's new book, Hey, Liberal!. The event will be held at 57th Street Books in Chicago, IL. 

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Hey, Liberal!
Hey, Liberal! ›
By Shawn Shiflett

Trade Paper

Published Sep 2016

In this honest novel set in the racial tinderbox of Chicago in 1969, Simon Fleming, the white son of an activist minister, is sent to a predominately African American high school, feeling charged to carry out the family’s commitment to school integration. He is dropped into a world where gang warfare, drug abuse, and violence are rampant. Simon’s quest for survival introduces him to Clyde, a gangbanger turned political militant; Louis, a brilliant, self-destructive boy; Clark, a racist police officer who vies for allegiance in return for protection; John, a communist teacher who teaches Simon as much about politics as about biology; and Dia, the object of his affections. Hey, Liberal! exposes an out-of-touch education system and the universality of racial violence amidst a nation moving, inch by hard-fought inch, toward a more culturally diverse future.