About this Event

#TheBronxisReading Book Club Pick for September is: This Train is Being Held by Ismée Williams.

Join us virtually for our September #TBIR Book Club meeting on Friday, September 25, 2020. This is a ticketed event, you must purchase a ticket to attend. The author will join us for an engaging discussion.

About the Book

Alex is a baseball player. A great one. His papi is pushing him to go pro, but Alex maybe wants to be a poet. Not that Papi would understand or allow that.
 
Isa is a dancer. She'd love to go pro, if only her Havana-born mom weren't dead set against it...just like she's dead set against her daughter falling for a Latino. And Isa's privileged private-school life—with her dad losing his job and her older brother struggling with mental illness—is falling apart. Not that she'd ever tell that to Alex.
 
Fate—and the New York City subway—bring Alex and Isa together. Is it enough to keep them together when they need each other most?

About the Author

Ismée Williams is the critically-acclaimed author of the YA contemporary #OwnVoices Water in May (2017) and This Train Is Being Held (2020), a Junior Library Guild selection, published by Amulet Books. Ismée has been an invited speaker at The Virginia Festival of the Book, The NYC Teen Author Festival, The Southern Kentucky Book Festival, and The Bronx Book Festival among others. Ismée is a pediatric cardiologist who trained and worked in New York City for over 20 years. She is the daughter of a Cuban immigrant and was partially raised by her abuelos. Follow her on Twitter and IG @IsmeeWilliams and her website: ismeewilliams.com