Finding the Heartland: Portraits of Middle America

Saturday, October 15, 2022 4:00 PM EDT
Horizon Hall, Atrium, Ground Floor

Love, family, secrets, and breaking boundaries are central to these sweeping Midwestern novels and stories: New to Liberty by DeMisty Bellinger, The Hive by Melissa Scholes Young, and These Americans by Jyotsna Sreenivasan. Told through the eyes of three women living decades apart, New to Liberty is what author Leah Angstman calls “a moving, heartbreaking, and uplifting novel of racial injustice, innocence lost, and the safety of women in one another’s company. The Hive is a tale of sisters struggling to save the family business – and themselves – in the face of a recession. Author Alex George calls The Hive, “real and raw and will pin you back in your seat.” These Americans is a story collection that follows the lives of Indian immigrants, which Margot Livesey says “explore with lightness and eloquence the complexity of living between cultures.”