BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Hugo House - ECPv6.3.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Hugo House X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hugohouse.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Hugo House REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190314T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190314T190000 DTSTAMP:20240328T174429 CREATED:20190206T023200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190206T023200Z UID:249093-1552590000-1552590000@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Mother Country: A Reading and Conversation with Irina Reyn and Carol Cassella DESCRIPTION:Irina Reyn\, award-winning author of What Happened to Anna K and The Imperial Wife\, will read from her new novel Mother Country\, which tackles themes of cultural division\, immigration laws\, and the powerful bond between a mother and the daughter she’s been separated from. \nReyn will be joined by Carol Cassella—bestselling author of the novels Gemini\, Healer\, and Oxygen—for a reading and conversation. \nAbout the Readers\n\nIrina Reyn is the author of What Happened to Anna K (Touchstone\, 2008) and The Imperial Wife (Thomas Dunn\, 2016). She is also the editor of the anthology Living on the Edge of the World: New Jersey Writers Take on the Garden State (Touchstone\, 2007). She has reviewed books for the Los Angeles Times\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette\, Minneapolis Star-Tribune\, The Forward\, and other publications. Her fiction and nonfiction has appeared in One Story\, Tin House\, Ploughshares\, Town & Country Travel\, and Poets & Writers. She teaches fiction writing at the University of Pittsburgh. She lives in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania and Brooklyn\, NY. \nCarol Cassella is a practicing physician and the national bestselling author of three novels\, Gemini (2014)\, Healer (2010)\, and Oxygen (2008)\, all out from Simon & Schuster. All were Indie Next Picks and have been published in multiple foreign languages. Through her fiction\, she explores lives touched by addiction\, malpractice\, immigration\, and tragedy. She lives on Bainbridge Island\, Washington\, with her husband and two sets of twins. URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/mother-country-a-reading-and-conversation-with-irina-reyn-and-carol-cassella/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR