Tracy Chevalier, the author of The Girl with the Pearl Earring, discusses her latest novel and the work of translating the 16th-century Venice of Othello to 1970s suburban Washington, DC. She will speak with Samhita Mukhopadhyay, the Senior Editorial Director of Culture and Identities at Mic. New Boy is Chevalier’s contribution to the Hogarth Shakespeare project, which solicits retellings of Shakespeare’s best works from acclaimed and bestselling novelists. The novel follows a diplomat’s son, eleven-year-old Osei Kokote, arriving at his fifth school in five years and quickly developing a relationship with Dee, the school’s most popular girl. But one student, Ian, who can’t stand to see a friendship between a black boy and a white girl, aims to sever their connection. ally ended in 2016, but some activities will continue in the USA and worldwide in 2017.
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