Please join the Sisterhood in welcoming author Joan Leegant, author of Displaced Persons: Stories, and winner of the 2022 New American Fiction Prize. The book is available for purchase ($18) in the temple office.

This title will also be featured in the “One Book, One Hadassah” presentation for August! Joan will be in conversation with Hadassah Magazine’s executive editor Lisa Hostein, via Zoom, August 22 at 7:00. Free and open to all, register online.

schedule:

10:30 am refreshments

11:00 am book talk

11:30 Q&A

Description from the publisher:

Set half in Israel and half in the States, the stories in this prize-winning collection explore the experience of exile, belonging, and what it means to call a place home. A visiting professor from Boston forms an unlikely bond with an Israeli born in Iraq. Two teenage tourists are startled out of their naiveté in a restaurant in Jerusalem’s Old City. A gifted yeshiva student spiraling into mental illness takes refuge in the poetry of Walt Whitman. An aged widower returns after sixty years to the Bronx neighborhood of his youth to make amends with a first love he abandoned to go to prison. Shimmering with insight and compassion, Displaced Persons is a profound, exquisite collection that illuminates pivotal moments of transition, longing, and hope.