
The Memoirs of Ruby Lovestone – Amontaine Aurore
Amontaine Aurore’s project for the 2024 Jack Straw Writers Program is an autobiographical coming of age novel set between 1963 and 1974, when her family moved to and lived in an all-white neighborhood in Seattle. The novel focuses on her search for a Black identity during a time of cultural, political, and social upheaval and change. In her conversation with curator Nisi Shawl, they explore some of the real life moments from the novel and how she keeps her writing authentic. “Life has always been very very funny to me. We can find humor in anything, I mean we can even find that in the darkest moments. So I want the pain and the joy to live side by side, because I think that’s what life is.”
Music by EarthtoneSkytone, produced in part through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.