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MONKEY LOVE Nick Laird reads from and signs his novel “Utterly Monkey” (HarperCollins), about an overworked young lawyer in London whose life is shaken up by a boyhood pal from Northern Ireland. Tonight, 7 p.m., Barnes & Noble Astor Place, 4 Astor Place at Broadway, 212-420-1322, free.
FOLLOWING FAMILY African-American novelist and playwright Thulani Davis reads from and signs her new book, “My Confederate Kinfolk: A Twenty-First Century Freedwoman Discovers Her Roots” (Basic Civitas). It follows her search for her white ancestors, including a Scots-Irish family of cotton planters. Tonight, 7 p.m., Barnes & Noble Upper West Side, 2289 Broadway at 82nd Street, 212-362-8835, free.
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