Pub day is around the corner for A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times ! Join the author, Meron Hadero, as we celebrate the launch of her award-winning story collection, A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times. Meron is the winner of the 2020 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing and the 2021 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing.

Meron will be in convesration with award-winning author of Fruit of the Drunken Tree, Ingrid Rojas Contreras. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Cut, and Zyzzyva, among others. The Man Who Could Move Clouds, a true family story about her mestizo curandero grandfather is her first memoir and is out from Doubleday on July 12, 2022.

This is an in-person, ticketed event. Tickets are available via the Booksmith website or Facebook page.

When: June 28 at 7:00 pm to 8: 30 pm PDT
Where: The Booksmith, 1727 Haight St, San Francisco, CA

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.