Pushed Together, Forced Apart

Wednesday, October 16, 2024 1:30 PM EDT
Fenwick Library, Fenwick Reading Room, 2nd Floor

Helen Benedict,  Myriam J. A. Chancy, and Munir Hachemi examine immigration, class, and human connection in their latest internationally-based novels. Benedict’s The Good Deed is set in 2018 in a refugee camp in Greece. It follows the stories of four women living in the camp and an American tourist who comes to the island and does a ‘good deed’ that sets off a crisis. Chancy’s The Village Weavers tells the story of two Haitian families that are forever linked, despite being on opposite ends of the class spectrum. Hachemi’s Living Things follows four migrants working on a nightmarish industrial chicken farm in France, enduring the trials of immigration, employment, and capitalism. In Partnership with the Alan Cheuse International Writers Center.