BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Friends of Old Town - ECPv6.15.17.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Friends of Old Town X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://friendsofoldtown.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Friends of Old Town REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250914T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250914T140000 DTSTAMP:20260406T225440 CREATED:20250807T205621Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250807T205621Z UID:10000071-1757851200-1757858400@friendsofoldtown.org SUMMARY:Author Event: Sandra Jackson-Opoku - Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes DESCRIPTION:With SAVVY SUMMERS AND THE SWEET POTATOCRIMES award-winning author Sandra Jackson-Opoku presents a sparkling debut mystery set on the south side of Chicago\, featuring the quick-witted\, unforgettable Savvy Summers\, proprietor of a soul food café. \nWhen Savvy first opened Essie’s soul food café\, she never expected her customer-favorite sweet potato pie to become the center of a murder investigation. But when Grandy Jaspers\, the 75-year-oldneighborhood womanizer\, drops dead at table two\, she suddenly has more to worry about than just maintaining Essie’s reputation for the finest soul food in the Chicagoland area. \nEven as the police deem Grandy’s death an accident\, Savvy quickly finds herself—and her beloved café—in the middle of an entire city’s worth of bad press. Desperate to clear her name and keep her business afloat\, Savvy and her snooping assistant manager\, Penny Lopés\, take it upon themselves to find who really killed Grandy. \nBut with a slimy investor harassing her to sell her name and business\, customers avoiding her sweet potato pie like the plague\, and her police sergeant ex-husband suddenly back in the picture\, will Savvy be able to clear the café’s name and solve Grandy’s murder before it all falls apart? \nSandra Jackson-Opoku is the author of the award-winning novel\, The River Where Blood is Born and Hot Johnny and the Women Who Loved Him\, an Essence Magazine Bestseller in Hardcover Fiction. She also coedited the anthology Revise the Psalm: Work Celebrating the Writing of Gwendolyn Brooks. Her fiction\, nonfiction\, and dramatic works are widely published and produced in Adi Magazine\, Midnight & Indigo\, Aunt Chloe\, Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction\, New Daughters of Africa\, Obsidian\, Another Chicago Magazine\, story South\, Lifeline Theatre\, the Chicago Humanities Festival\, and others. Professional recognition includes a Plentitudes Journal Prize\, the Hearst Foundation James Baldwin Fellowship at MacDowell Arts\, a National Endowment for the Arts Fiction Fellowship\, an American Library Association Black Caucus Award\, a City of Chicago Esteemed Artist Award\, the Iceland Writers Retreat Alumni Award\, a Globe Soup Story Award\, the Joan Perry Barnes Fellow in Crime Writing at Story knife Writers Retreat and a Pushcart Prize nomination. URL:https://friendsofoldtown.org/event/author-event-sandra-jackson-opoku-savvy-summers-and-the-sweet-potato-crimes/ LOCATION:Winchester Book Gallery\, 7 North Loudoun Street\, Winchester\, V\, 22601\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://friendsofoldtown.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Author-Event-Sandra-Jackson-Opoku-Savvy-Summers-and-the-Sweet-Potato-Crimes-.png ORGANIZER;CN="Winchester Book Gallery":MAILTO:info@winchesterbookgallery.com END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR