Author Talk: Elizabeth Graver and Aaron Hamburger
When:
Thursday, May 04, 2023 7:00p -
8:00p
Thursday, May 04, 2023 7:00p -
8:00p
Where:
Porter Square Books
25 White St
Cambridge, MA 02140
Admission:
FREE
Hosted by:
Categories:
Accessible Spots, Art
Event website:
https://www.portersquarebooks.com/event/authors-elizabeth-graver-and-aaron-hamburger-conversation
Porter Square Books is thrilled to welcome Elizabeth Graver, author of Kantika, and Aaron Hamburger, author of Hotel Cuba! This event will take place on Thursday, May 4 at 7pm at Porter Square Books (25 White St. Cambridge, MA 02140).
A dazzling Sephardic multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New York, exploring displacement, endurance, and family as home.
A kaleidoscopic portrait of one family’s displacement across four countries, Kantika—“song” in Ladino—follows the joys and losses of Rebecca Cohen, feisty daughter of the Sephardic elite of early 20th-century Istanbul. When the Cohens lose their wealth and are forced to move to Barcelona and start anew, Rebecca fashions a life and self from what comes her way—a failed marriage, the need to earn a living, but also passion, pleasure and motherhood. Moving from Spain to Cuba to New York for an arranged second marriage, she faces her greatest challenge—her disabled stepdaughter, Luna, whose feistiness equals her own and whose challenges pit new family against old.
Exploring identity, place and exile, Kantika also reveals how the female body—in work, art and love—serves as a site of both suffering and joy. A haunting, inspiring meditation on the tenacity of women, this lush, lyrical novel from Elizabeth Graver celebrates the insistence on seizing beauty and grabbing hold of one’s one and only life.
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