SISTERS, SECRETS & FAMILY STRUGGLES – FICTION

Sunday, November 23 @ 4:30 pm

Room 8203 (Building 8, 2nd Floor)

300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

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Esther Chehebar’s Sisters of Fortune: A Novel is the story of three sisters in a Syrian Jewish family: a rebellious – and single – older sister; a middle sister questioning her upcoming marriage; and a baby sister sneaking around with a charming older bachelor. They find themselves caught between tradition and modernity, reckoning with what their tight-knit community wants for them against what they want for themselves. Jeanine Cummins’ Speak to Me of Home: A Novel is a multigenerational story of family and identity. When Rafaela marries in Puerto Rico, she cannot predict the drastic change that awaits her young family in America, where her daughter, Ruth, struggles to belong. Only when tragedy strikes Ruth’s own daughter do the three women begin to reflect on their choices – and the meaning of belonging. Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s The Sisters: A Novel follows the complicated and memorable Mikkola siblings – three unforgettable women bound by family, betrayal, and desire – and Jonas, whose life intersects theirs across three decades. From Tunisia to Sweden to New York, this family saga chronicles sibling rivalry, love, and a shocking revelation that changes everything.

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Date:: Sunday, November 23
Time:: 4:30 pm

Authors

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Esther Chehebar

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Jeanine Cummins

Jonas Hassen Khemiri

JONAS HASSEN KHEMIRI is the author of six novels, seven plays, and a collection of plays, essays, and short stories. His first novel, One Eye Red (Ett öga rött), received the Borås Tidning Award for best literary debut novel and became the bestselling paperback in Sweden of any category in 2004. His second novel, Montecore: The Silence of the Tiger, received the prestigious P.O. Enquist Literary Prize, won Swedish Radio’s Award for best novel, and was nominated for the August Award. Upon its U.S. publication by Knopf, The New York Times Book Review dubbed the novel “wondrous.” In 2012, following a terrorist bombing in central Stockholm, he published the powerful short novel I Call My Brothers (Jag ringer mina bröder) to critical acclaim. Everything I Don’t Remember: A Novel (Allt jag inte minns), his greatly anticipated fourth novel, was published in 2015 and received the August Prize, Sweden’s highest literary honor. The Family Clause (Pappaklausulen) was published in the U.S. in 2020, longlisted for the Pen America Literary Awards, and chosen as a finalist for the National Book Award. His seventh book, The Sisters: A Novel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) became one of the bestselling novels of 2023 and was a finalist for the August Prize. His novels have been translated into more than 35 languages and he is the first Swedish writer to have a short story published in The New Yorker. He is also a celebrated playwright whose six plays have been performed by more than 100 international companies on stages from Stockholm and Berlin to New York and London. He was awarded a Village Voice Obie Award for his first play, Invasion!, which premiered in New York in 2011. In 2013, his open letter to the Swedish minister of justice in response to the controversial police project REVA, which was first published in Dagens Nyheter, rapidly became one of the most shared articles on social media in Swedish history. The article was later translated into more than a dozen languages and published in newspapers around the world, including The New York Times. In 2021, he moved to New York with his family to write a new novel as a Cullman fellow. He teaches in the creative writing program at New York University.

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Language: English
Occurrence: Annual

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Name:: Room 8203 (Building 8, 2nd Floor)
Location:: 300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States
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