Join Busboys and Poets Books as we welcome author Camille Acker for a discussion on her debut short story collection, Training School for Negro Girls. This book is a complicated love letter to Washington, DC, and to those who call it home: a TSA agent who's never flown, a girl braving new worlds to play piano, a teacher caught up in the mayoral race. These characters navigate life's "training school"—with lessons in gentrification and respectability—and fight to create their own sense of space and self. The author will be joined by acclaimed novelist Marita Golden to discuss her new book, as well as the possibilities of literature to shatter monolithic depictions of black womanhood and make space for new stories.