Kings of Broken Things: Bystanders, Historical Wounds, and the Omaha Race Riot of 1919

New Cassel Retirement Center 900 N 90th St., Omaha

Ted Wheeler discusses the societal and personal factors that helped form his novel — "Kings of Broken Things" — an immigrant coming-of-age story set amid the political, economic and racial tensions surrounding the 1919 lynching of Will Brown. Held at the New Cassel Retirement Community on 11/2 at 1 pm.