6 p.m. Thursday at Collected Works Bookstore The friends in conversation about Owusu’s debut memoir, Aftershocks, described as

“... a gorgeous work of art ...” by Review. The daughter of an Albanian American mother and a Ghanaian father, Owusu writes about her peripatetic childhood, being raised by her U.N. official father, her absent mother, and struggling with personal issues of race and identity.