A Reading: Deni Y. Bechard on Cures For Hunger, Nura Maznavi on The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women, Susan Kushner Resnick on What a Holocaust Survivor Taught Me
Sunday, Nov. 18, 2:00 p.m., Room 8501 (Building 8, 5th Floor)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Deni Y. Béchard
Deni Y. Béchard’s memoir, Cures for Hunger (Milkweed Editions, $24.00), portrays a highly unconventional portrait of the artist as a young man. Soon after Deni’s mother leaves his father and decamps with her three children to Virginia, Deni learns that his father was once a bank robber, a revelation that sets his imagination on fire. Deni can’t escape the sense that his father’s life holds the key to understanding himself, and to making sense of his own passions and longings. “. . . a poignant adventure story with a mystery. . .”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Béchard is also the author of the novel Vandal Love (Milkweed Editions, $16.00), which follows generations of a unique French-Canadian family across North America and through the twentieth century. A family curse causes the Hervé children to be born either giants or runts. But none of the Hervés can abandon their longing for a place where they might find others like themselves. “. . . a strange and beautiful first novel...built sentence by luminous, surprising sentence."—Minneapolis Star Tribune
Nura Maznavi
Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women (Soft Skull Press; $15.95) takes on the commonly held belief that Muslim women are all oppressed, submissive, forced into arranged marriages, and hiding explosives under their clothes. Using 24 real portraits of Muslim women all across the country, author Ayesha Mattu and Nura Maznavi reveal that Muslim women flirt, date, have sex, and yes, seek love just like the rest of us. “An intimate, brutally honest anthology,”—The Christian Science Monitor. Mattu is a human rights consultant and photographer. Maznavi is a civil right attorney.
Susan Kushner Resnick
Age, memory, identity: these are the issues Susan Kushner Resnick addresses in her memoir, You Saved Me, Too: What a Holocaust Survivor Taught Me About Living, Dying, Loving, Fighting, and Swearing in Yiddish (Globe Pequot/Skirt!, $24.95). Resnick speaks directly to a virtually family-less Holocaust survivor, whom she befriends as he lies on his deathbed in a nursing home. That relationship forces Resnick to face her ambivalence about being Jewish. Resnick is the author of two book of nonfiction, Sleepless Days: One Woman’s Journey Through Postpartum Depression and Goodbye Wifes and Daughters.
Schedule
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Room 8501 (Building 8, 5th Floor)
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