Fiction Panel Lunch

Friday, November 10, 12pm
JCC Auditorium C
JCC Member: $20, Non-Member $25
(Includes boxed lunch*)

Weina Dai Randel is the first Asian American novelist who intertwined Chinese history with the Jewish diaspora in Shanghai during WWII. Night Angels is a profoundly moving novel about a diplomatic couple who risked their lives to help Viennese Jews escape the Nazis by issuing them Visas. It is based on the true story of Dr. Ho Fengshan, Righteous Among the Nations.

Jai Chakrabarti’s novel A Play for the End of the World won the National Jewish Book Award for debut fiction. In his short story collection A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness, he explores what it means to cultivate a family today – across borders, cultures, religions and race. Born in Kolkata, India, he now lives in New York.

Lauren Grodstein’s novel We Must Not Think of Ourselves is a heart-wrenching story of love and defiance in the Warsaw Ghetto, which is based on actual archives kept by those determined to have their stories survive World War II. Grodstein’s other titles include the New York Times bestseller A Friend of the Family and the Washington Post Book of the Year The Explanation for Everything.

Click here to pre-order Lauren Grodstein’s book, “We Must Not Think of Ourselves.” 
A copy will be mailed to your home. We will have bookplates for Grodstein to sign at the Fiction lunch.

Moderated by Authors + Innovators Festival committee member and journalist Stacey Freed

Underwritten by
Mona Friedman Kolko
Kate and Jonathan Goldstein

Community Partners:
Hadassah, Women of Reform Judaism, Women’s Philanthropy of the Jewish Federation

*Kosher under supervision