Jamaican Born Author Curtis Webley Featured in Book Signing in Hempstead, New York
Jamaican born author Curtis Webley will be presenting a book signing on May 21 featuring his book, "Surviving in America." The signing, located at Best Sellers Book Store in Hempstead, N.Y., will begin at 2 p.m.
Fort Lauderdale, FL (PRWEB via PR Web
Direct) May 6, 2005 – Jamaican born Curtis Webley, author of "Surviving in
America," will be presenting a book signing on May 21, 2005 at Best Sellers Book
Store, 43 A Mains Street, Hempstead, N.Y. The book signing will begin at 2:00
pm.
"Surviving in America" explores contrast in Jamaican and American
culture. Afro-American culture is often perceived as a singularly homogenous
ingredient in the melting pot that is America. Yet within the Black community
exist a multitude of independent, yet interwoven, subcultures. Authentic fifth
generation Afro-Americans, Caribbeans, African immigrants, southerners,
northerners, professionals, gangsters, workers, superstars, rich and poor, and
more, are part of the fabric of the American Black experience. These threads,
whether they combine or clash, overlap or overshadow, complete a tapestry that
evokes the Black American Experience.
Curtis Webley grasps two strong
threads to weave an intricate story taken from that fabric in "Surviving in
America." Two Jamaican boys immigrate to America. Amin and Ragweed begin on
similar paths: both are poor and fatherless, raised in rural Jamaica. Both long
to live in America. Their lives diverge then intersect again and again, as they
assimilate into American culture. Amin, solid and sensible, is the model of the
hardworking, mainstream and upwardly mobile, immigrant. He follows the
tried-and-true patterns of immigrants before him, weaving his way through
education, a marriage and professional success. Ragweed's story is different.
Drugs, crime, prison and illegitimate children with multiple mothers become the
dimensions that define Ragweed's life. A book greater than the stories of these
two men's lives, "Surviving in America" explores Jamaican and American culture,
nature and nurture and the hopes, dreams and failures that plague us all.
Curtis Webley emigrated from Jamaica to the United States in 1975. He
received a B.S. in Accounting from Roosevelt University (1981), his C.P.A. in
Illinois (1992) and his M.S. in Taxation from the Washington School of Law
(1995). Currently, Webley is a freelance writer, an adjunct professor of
accounting and income taxes at colleges throughout Chicago, Controller of Spiral
of Illinois, Inc., and owner/operator of Webley's Accounting Services in
Evanston, Illinois since 1981. He is married and has five children. The threads
of Webley's own life run through his well-written, emotional, intuitive and
intelligent saga, "Surviving in America."
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