Steubenville Novelist Harold Rogers, Tropicalia

July 30, 2024
12:00pm - 1:00pm

Harold Rogers was born in Steubenville, Ohio, to an American father and a Brazilian mother and grew up between the United States and Rio de Janeiro. He holds a BA in philosophy from Miami University in Ohio, and an MFA from Columbia University. He lives in New York City, where he works as a boxing coach and a stand-up comedian. Tropicália, in which old secrets are brought to light when a family matriarch returns to Brazil after years away,  is his first novel. It explores the heartbreak and hope of what it means to be from two homes, two peoples, and two worlds.

"A bacchanal of familial entanglements, as beautiful as it is brutal. This is a story of what happens when love is the midwife of destruction, trauma the cousin of redemption, and fate, the absentee mother of us all. I loved this book in all its parts, but as a whole, it left me awestruck." —JAMIE FORD, New York Times bestselling author of The Many Daughters of Afong Moy