Thursday at 7:30 p.m. Edward P. Jones, author of "All Aunt Hagar's Children."

"Trust in the Lord, Aunt Hagar," said the oldest of the men, sorrowfully.

Put side by side, "Lost in the City" and "All Aunt Hagar's Children" are extraordinary works of empathy and imagination.

In the end he agreed to the move but reinstated the building in its rightful address when the story was published as part of "All Aunt Hagar's Children."

Jones's third book, All Aunt Hagar's Children, was published in 2006.

The fourteen stories of All Aunt Hagar's Children revisit not merely the city of Washington but the fourteen stories of Lost in the City.

All Aunt Hagar's Children (2006)

"Aunt Hagar's Blues", the biblical Hagar, handmaiden to Abraham and Sarah, was considered the "mother" of the African Americans.

She was active as a recording artist in the early 1920s, and her best known tracks were "Decatur Street Blues" and "Aunt Hagar's Children Blues".

Her output included the first vocalised recording of the W. C. Handy and Tim Brymn co-written song, "Aunt Hagar's Children Blues."