Belle Yang on Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale; Amir on Zahra’s Paradise and Sarah Glidden on How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less
Saturday, Nov. 19, 2:00 p.m., Prometeo Theatre (Building 1, 1st Floor, Room 1101)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Belle Yang
Belle Yang's graphic memoir, Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale (W.W. Norton, $15.95), ". . . echoes both with the tragic darkness of King Lear and the clean austerity of classical Chinese poetry," says Publishers Weekly. While living with her immigrant parents in Carmel, California, Yang, recently graduated from college, but wounded by self-doubt and the bad memories of an ex-boyfriend turned stalker, listens to her father's stories about their family's travails in China during WWII and Mao's revolution. Yang is the award-winning author/illustrator of two works of adult nonfiction and three picture books.
. Amir
Amir's graphic novel, Zahra’s Paradise (First Second Books, $19.99), takes you inside Iran – into the pivotal time between the 2009 Green Revolution and today’s Arab Spring. In this story of vanished relatives, secret prisons, and grieving families, the upheaval and disquiet of a nation’s journey toward change is put on display for the world. Amir is an Iranian-American human rights activist, journalist and documentary filmmaker.
Sarah Glidden
An experienced traveler and a skeptic, author/illustrator Sarah Glidden goes on a "birthright" trip to Israel in an attempt to discover some grand truths at the heart of the Arab-Israeli conflict. How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less (Vertigo, $19.99) is her subtly humorous struggle with history and heritage.
Schedule
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Prometeo Theatre (Building 1, 1st Floor, Room 1101)
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