St. Francis College, 180 Remsen Street - 1:00pm

The Meaning of Home

Complex lives and motives are at the core of every home, and in this program, three authors discuss how families embody sacrifice, loss, and renewal. In K'wan’s The Reluctant King, the fun-loving protagonist must live up to his family’s aspirations and secrets. Saïd Sayrafiezadeh situates his second collection of short stories, American Estrangement, amid the intricate family dynamics and thorny conflicts of contemporary America. And in The Five Wounds, debut novelist Kirstin Valdez Quade focuses on a multigenerational family’s reckoning with addiction, religion, and rebirth. Moderated by Catherine LaSota.

Brooklyn Book Festival is New York City’s largest free literary festival and connects readers with local, national and international authors and publishers during the course of a celebratory literary week.

The Festival presents original programming and enthusiastically welcomes New York City’s cross cultural book readers as well as national and international attendees. The Festival is known for fostering creative dialogue among the authors, presenting new literary voices as well as established authors, and for serving the literary community by providing a highly visible platform for the work of authors and publishers.