Book Talk - Displaced Persons (Meet the Author)
Sunday, November 3, 2024 • 2 Cheshvan 5785
10:30 AM - 12:00 PMDisplaced Persons is a collection of rich, multi-layered short stories, half set in Israel, half among Jewish families in the States, and explores exile, belonging, and what it means to call a place home. Winner of the New American Fiction Prize, it was selected out of 500+ submissions. Joan Leegant's Displaced Persons was also selected for the One Book, One Hadassah program which chooses six books a year to highlight for their members. The Women's League for Conservative Judaism, the umbrella organization for Sisterhood's and women's groups at Conservative synagogues, has also selected Joan Leegant’s Displaced Persons for the Women’s League Reads program. Joan is also the author of two other books: Wherever You Go, a novel which the Union of Reform Judaism designated as a “Significant Jewish Book,” and An Hour in Paradise, which, won the PEN/New England Book Award, the Wallant Award for Jewish Fiction, and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. This session is cosponsored by JCA, Hadassah, and the CBI Adult Education Committee.
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