Bayo Ojikutu: Free Burning May 21, 2009

Follow the journey of Tommie Simms and the social and economic realities he faces in this novel by award-winning Chicago-based author Bayo Ojikutu. Taking place on Chicago's South Side in the fictional Four Corners neighborhood, 'Free Burning' has been called "the most foreboding love letter the city has ever received" (Timeout Chicago) and "a searing portrayal of one of the shameful realities within an oft unjust society" (Black Issues Book Review). Ojikutu's critically-acclaimed first novel, 47th Street Black (2003), received both the Washington Prize for Fiction and the Great American Book Award. Books will be available for sale and autographing.