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Join author of "A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times," Meron Hadero, at Odyssey Bookshop

  • Odyssey Bookshop 9 College Street South Hadley, MA, 01075 United States (map)

Join author of the award-winning story collection, A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times, Meron Hadero, for a virtual author talk at Odyssey Bookshop. Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing and the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing, this incredible short story collection is a nuanced and illuminating exploration of immigration, estrangement, and what it means to call someplace home.

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When: July 7 at 7 pm EST
Where: Odyssey Bookshop via Zoom

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Meron Hadero holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan, a JD from Yale Law School (Washington State Bar), and a BA in history from Princeton with a certificate in American studies. A 2019–2020 Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University, and a fellow at Yaddo, Ragdale, and MacDowell, Meron’s short stories have won the 2021 Caine Prize for African Writing, and appear in Best American Short Stories, Ploughshares, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Zyzzyva, The Iowa Review, Missouri Review, 40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology, and others. Her forthcoming debut collection, A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times, was awarded the 2020 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing.

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