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JEWISH AUTHORS & IDEAS SERIES: Elizabeth Graver
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Event Series: Authors & Ideas Series
JEWISH AUTHORS & IDEAS SERIES: Elizabeth Graver
October 18, 2023 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
JCC MetroWest presents, Elizabeth Graver, “Kantika”
A dazzling, Sephardic, multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New York, exploring displacement, endurance, and family as home. Kantika—“song” in Ladino—follows the joys and losses of Rebecca Cohen, feisty daughter of the Sephardic elite of early 20th-century Istanbul. When the Cohens lose their wealth and are forced to move to Barcelona and start anew, Rebecca fashions a life and self from what comes her way—a failed marriage, the need to earn a living, but also passion, pleasure and motherhood. Moving from Spain to Cuba to New York for an arranged second marriage, she faces her greatest challenge—her disabled stepdaughter, Luna, whose feistiness equals her own and whose challenges pit new family against old.
Book group discussion at 12:00 PM
Author presentation at 1:00 PM
Book Group discussion and conversation with the author will be available either in person or on Zoom for participants; author will present via Zoom.
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