Book Club: Leaving Home

Dates:April 16 - June 18, 2024
Meets:Tu from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Location:Hilltop Books
Cost: $44.00

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What is it like to leave the place you call home and try to make a new home elsewhere? And how does the concept of “home” change with such a major transition? These are some of the questions that will frame our discussion of texts and narratives in different genres that focus on the border crossings of immigrants and transnationals from different periods and cultures.

April 16 - Colm Toibin, Brooklyn, 2009

May 14 - Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis, 2003

June 4 - Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives, 2018

June 18 - Mohsin Hamid, Exit West, 2017
Fee: $44.00

Fee Breakdown

Category Description Amount
Course Fee (Basic)Course Fee$ 44.00
Optional FeeDonation (optional)$ 0.00

Hilltop Books

84 Bethlehem Pike, Philadelphia, PA 19118

Gabriella Ibieta

holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from CUNY, and was Associate Professor of English at Drexel U for over thirty years. Of the many courses she created and taught, her favorites are: Transnational Women Writers; Mural Arts Philadelphia; and Leaving Home. She’s editor of Latin American Writers: 30 Stories, and co-editor of Inventing America: Readings in Identity and Culture.
Date Day Time Location
04/16/2024Tuesday6:30 PM to 8 PM Hilltop Books
05/14/2024Tuesday6:30 PM to 8 PM Hilltop Books
06/04/2024Tuesday6:30 PM to 8 PM Hilltop Books
06/18/2024Tuesday6:30 PM to 8 PM Hilltop Books

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