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Well Read Black Girl with Nikki Payne on Pride and Protest

A conversation with Glory Edim and Nikki Payne.

For our last Well-Read Black Girl discussion of 2023, join us for a conversation with Nikki Payne to discuss Payne's latest book Pride and Protest. In conversation with Glory Edim, Payne will talk about this witty retelling of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. 

This event is hosted in partnership with the DC Public Library Foundation. 

ABOUT THE BOOK: 

A woman goes head-to-head with the CEO of a corporation threatening to destroy her neighborhood in this fresh and modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice by debut author Nikki Payne.
Liza B.—the only DJ who gives a jam—wants to take her neighborhood back from the soulless property developer dropping unaffordable condos on every street corner in DC. But her planned protest at a corporate event takes a turn after she mistakes the smoldering-hot CEO for the waitstaff. When they go toe-to-toe, the sparks fly—but her impossible-to-ignore family thwarts her every move. Liza wants Dorsey Fitzgerald out of her hood, but she’ll settle for getting him out of her head.
At first, Dorsey writes off Liza Bennett as more interested in performing outrage than acting on it. As the adopted Filipino son of a wealthy white family, he’s always felt a bit out of place and knows a fraud when he sees one. But when Liza’s protest results in a viral meme, their lives are turned upside down, and Dorsey comes to realize this irresistible revolutionary is the most real woman he’s ever met.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

By day, Nikki Payne is a curious tech anthropologist asking the right questions to deliver better digital services.  By night, she dreams of ways to subvert canon literature. She’s amember of Smut U, a premium feminist writing collective, and is a cat lady with no cats.

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