Shelf Interest: Where You Go, I Will Go - Chat & Chill with Christina Fonthes
Thu 22 May
|Here East
Join us for some games and food while we talk to Christina Fonthes about her debut book, "Where You Go, I Will Go"!
Time & Location
22 May 2025, 18:30 – 21:00
Here East, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Lesney Ave, London E20 3BS, UK
About the event
Join us to discuss Where You Go, I Will Go with Christina Fonthes!
Come with a friend or alone, we'll get you acquainted with everyone!
About The Author
Christina Fonthes is a Congolese-British writer and the founder of REWRITE, an organisation that supports and champions Black women and women of colour writers. In 2021 she won the RSL Sky Arts Writers Award for Fiction, and was mentored by Bernardine Evaristo and Irenosen Okojie. She lives in London and is available for feature, interview and events throughout 2025.
About the book
1980s Kinshasa. Mira is the teenage daughter of a family on the rise. When she falls in love with an impoverished singer, a criminal the eyes of her parents, it sets her on a dramatic path that winds its way across oceans and decades.