Fall for the Book: Pushed Together, Forced Apart with Munir Hachemi

Wednesday, October 16, 2024 1:30 PM to 2:45 PM EDT
Fenwick Library, 2001 - Second Floor Conference Room

Cheuse Writer-in-Residence Munir Hachemi joins Helen Benedict and Myriam J. A. Chancy will be in the Fenwick Reading Room on Wednesday, October 16 at 1:30 PM. 

They will 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.

Location: Fenwick Reading Room, 2nd Floor, Fenwick Library

In Partnership with Fall for the Book

This event was sponsored in part by the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.