AUTHOR EVENTS FRIDAY-THURSDAY

Sonora Reyes, “The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School,” and R/B Mertz, “Burning Butch.” Reyes’ debut novel follows a queer Mexican American girl navigating Catholic school, while falling in love and learning to celebrate her true self. In Mertz’s coming-of-age memoir, a trans/non-binary butch tries to figure out how to survive in a conservative, religious environment. 7:30 p.m. today. Discussion on Crowdcast. Free. Charis Books & More. charisbooksandmore.com/

Matt Goldman, “Carolina Moonset.” A son who returns home when his father succumbs to dementia finds that his father’s hallucinatory arguments with figures from his youth hint at long-buried secrets and scandals. 1 p.m. Saturday. In-store talk, signing. Free. Foxtale Book Shoppe, 105 E. Main St. suite 138, Woodstock, 770516-9989. foxtalebookshoppe.com

Phil Cohen, “Fighting Union Busters in a Carolina Carpet Mill.” In 2017, veteran organizer Cohen came out of retirement to investigate and expose a union-busting plot by Mohawk Industries at a North Carolina carpet mill. His hard-hitting account chronicles the resulting labor dispute and blows the lid off the nation’s union-busting epidemic. 3 p.m. Sunday. In-store talk, signing. Free. A Cappella Books, 208 Haralson Ave. NE, Atlanta, 404-681-5128, acappellabooks.com

David Hackett Fischer, “African Founders.” Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Fischer shows how enslaved Africans — bringing with them linguistic skills, novel techniques of animal husbandry and farming, and generations-old ethical principles, among other attributes — interacted with colonists of European origins in different regions of the early United States to produce a new, distinctly American culture. 7 p.m. Tuesday. Talk on Zoom. Free. Atlanta History Center. atlantahistorycenter.com

Edafe Okporo, “Asylum.” Nigerian asylee global gay rights immigration activist Edafe’s eye-opening and thought-provoking memoir/manifesto documents his experiences growing up gay in Nigeria, fleeing to America, navigating the immigration system, and making a life for himself. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Conversation on Crowdcast. Free. Charis Books & More. charisbooksandmore.com/