Author Talk: Theresa Okokon - "Who I Always Was"

When:
Thursday, Mar 20, 2025 6:00p -
7:30p

Where:
Rabb Hall, Boston Public Library
700 Boylston St
Boston, MA 02116

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FREE

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Join local author Theresa Okokon as she discusses her memoir, Who I Always Was. 

The talk will end at 7:15 PM after a Q&A session from the audience. Afterwards, there will be an in-person author signing facilitated by Frugal Bookstore.


About the book: When Theresa Okokon was nine, her father traveled to his hometown in Nigeria to attend his mother’s funeral…and never returned. His mysterious death shattered Theresa as her family’s world unraveled. Now a storyteller and television cohost, Okokon sets out to explore the ripple effects of that profound loss and the way heartache shapes our sense of self and of the world—for the rest of our lives.


Using her grief and her father’s death as a backdrop, Okokon delves deeply into intrinsic themes of Blackness, African spirituality, family, abandonment, belonging, and the seemingly endless, unrequited romantic pursuits of a Black woman who came of age as a Black girl in Wisconsin suburbs where she was—in many ways—always an anomaly.

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