Three Novels: A Reading

Idra Novey’s Ways to Disappear is a novel about the disappearance of a famous Brazilian novelist and the young translator who turns her life upside down to follow her author’s trail. In Yasmine El Rashidi‘s debut novel, Chronicle of a Last Summer, a young Egyptian woman recounts her personal and political coming of age. Set in the vibrant coastal and Caribbean communities of Miami, the Florida Keys, Havana, Cuba, and Cartagena, Colombia, Patricia Engel‘s novel The Veins of the Ocean delivers a profound and riveting story of fractured lives finding solace and redemption in the beauty and power of the natural world, and in one another.