SLCL Presents Coretta Scott King Award-Winning YA Author Ibi Zoboi

St. Louis County Library Foundation’s Favorite Author Series and The Novel Neighbor are pleased to host acclaimed young adult author Ibi Zoboi for a discussion and signing of her latest novel, “(S)Kin.”

The event will take place on Wednesday, February 26, 7:00 p.m. at the Clark Family Branch, 1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd, St. Louis MO 63131. Books will be available for purchase and signing from The Novel Neighbor. The program is presented in partnership with St. Louis County Library’s 2025 Black History Celebration.

From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Ibi Zoboi comes her groundbreaking contemporary fantasy debut—a novel in verse based on Caribbean folklore—about the power of inherited magic and the price we must pay to live the life we yearn for.

Fifteen-year-old Marisol is the daughter of a soucouyant. Every new moon, she sheds her skin like the many women before her, shifting into a fireball witch who must fly into the night and slowly sip from the lives of others to sustain her own. But Brooklyn is no place for fireball witches with all its bright lights, shut windows, and bolt-locked doors.… While Marisol hoped they would leave their old traditions behind when they emigrated from the islands, she knows this will never happen while she remains ensnared by the one person who keeps her chained to her magical past—her mother.

Seventeen-year-old Genevieve is the daughter of a college professor and a newly minted older half sister of twins. Her worsening skin condition and the babies’ constant wailing keep her up at night, when she stares at the dark sky with a deep longing to inhale it all. She hopes to quench the hunger that gnaws at her, one that seems to reach for some memory of her estranged mother. When a new nanny arrives to help with the twins, a family secret connecting her to Marisol is revealed, and Gen begins to find answers to questions she hasn’t even thought to ask.

But the girls soon discover that the very skin keeping their flames locked beneath the surface may be more explosive to the relationships around them than any ancient magic.

IBI ZOBOI is the New York Times bestselling author of “American Street,” a National Book Award finalist; “Nigeria Jones,” a Coretta Scott King Award winner; “Pride”; “My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich;” “Okoye to the People: A Black Panther Novel” for Marvel; and the Walter Award and LA Times Book Prize–winning “Punching the Air,” cowritten with Exonerated Five member Yusef Salaam. She is also a two-time Coretta Scott King Honor Award winner for her picture book “The People Remember” and her middle grade biography of Octavia Butler, “Star Child.” She is the editor of the anthology “Black Enough.” 

Program sites are accessible. With at least two weeks' notice, accommodations will be made for persons with disabilities. Call 314-994-3300 or contact us.