BOOKS: Laws of attraction or just a coincidence?

Seriously, whomever the director of programming is at the 92nd Street Y needs to get out of our brain--either that, or the laws of attraction must be true because we just received a press release about our dream reading. This past summer, we read Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "Half Of a Yellow Sun" and "Purple Hibiscus" and Dave Egger's "What is the What" back-to-back (it also sparked our current obsession with contemporary fiction about Africa, we're preparing to read Chris Abani's "Graceland") and thought to ourselves, "these two should do a reading together." Lo and behold, the two will be reading excerpts from their novels on Monday, January 7 at 8pm. Valentino Achak Deng, the Sudanese Lost Boy who Eggers based his latest book on, will also be there. Get the deets here.