Conversation with Ayelet Tsabari, author of Songs for the Brokenhearted

• Sunday, October 25 @ 1:00 pm
• Lewes Public Library, Lewes, DE

Join the Lewes Public Library and Seaside Jewish Community, online for a conversation with Ayelet Tsabari, author of Songs for the Brokenhearted. This debut novel won the National Jewish Book Award's JJ Greenberg Memorial Award. Told in parallel narratives across different time periods, a young Yemeni Israeli woman learns of her mother’s secret romance in a dramatic journey through lost family stories, revealing the unbreakable bond between a mother and a daughter. 

Ayelet Tsabari is the author of The Art of Leaving, finalist for the Writer’s Trust Hilary Weston Prize, winner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for memoir, and a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2019. Her first book, The Best Place on Earth, won the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and has been published internationally. She’s the co-editor of the anthology Tongues: On Longing and Belonging Through Language and has taught creative writing at Guelph MFA in Creative Writing and The University of King’s College MFA.

NOTE: this meeting is being conducted through Zoom. You MUST REGISTER to receive instructions for joining the meeting.

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