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Songs for the Brokenhearted: Book Talk with Ayelet Tsabari
Monday, October 21, 2024 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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Monday, October 21, 5:30–7 pm PT, 297 Goldberg Room, Berkeley Law Building
Light Reception: 5–5:30 pm PT, Steinhart Courtyard, Berkeley Law Building
Register: https://brokenhearted.rsvpify.com
About this Lecture
Join us for a discussion with Ayelet Tsabari about her debut novel Songs for the Brokenhearted. She will be in conversation with Professor Yael Segalovitz.
About Songs for the Brokenhearted
A young Yemeni Israeli woman learns of her mother’s secret romance in a dramatic journey through lost family stories, revealing the unbreakable bond between a mother and a daughter—the debut novel of an award-winning literary voice. Order the book here.
Speakers
Ayelet Tsabari, Israeli author
Yael Segalovitz, 2024–2025 Israel Institute Visiting Professor at the Helen Diller Institute; Lecturer at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
About Ayelet Tsabari
Ayelet Tsabari is the author of The Art of Leaving, finalist for the Writer’s Trust Hilary Weston Prize, winner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for memoir, and a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2019. Her first book, The Best Place on Earth, won the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and has been published internationally. She’s the co-editor of the anthology Tongues: On Longing and Belonging Through Language and has taught creative writing at Guelph MFA in Creative Writing and The University of King’s College MFA.
Cosponsored with the Center for Jewish Studies at UC Berkeley.
Alexa Kennard, alexakennard@berkeley.edu, (510) 664-7024
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