Leslie Maitland

Book discussion with photographic display and book signing.

Reading, questions, and signing

Reading, questions, and signing

Authors of recently published Jewish books will talk about their texts, sign books you can purchase, and answer questions. Refreshments start at 9:30 am followed by presentations at 10 am. Free and open to the public.

Leslie Maitland will speak on Crossing the Borders of Time at the Jewish Public Library of Montreal on Thursday, November 1, 2012 @ 7:30 p.m. Her talk is the Norman Berman annual lecture and will be followed by a reception and book signing.

Reading, questions, and signing

Reading, questions, and signing

Four writers dissect the crucial relationship of parent and child. Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights, delivers a painful appraisal of his relationship with his brain-damaged son in Father’s Day. Alexandra Styron discusses Reading My Father, her memoir of growing up the daughter of the novelist William Styron. Alex Witchel, New York Times staff writer, explores the heartbreaking decline of her mother into dementia in All Gone, while in Crossing the Borders of Time, Leslie Maitland locates the lover from whom her mother was separated while fleeing Nazi Germany. Moderated by Leslie Gilbert-Lurie, author of the memoir Bending Toward the Sun.

National Reading Group Month Event, sponsored by The Women’s National Book Association and the Arts Club of Washington

Politics & Prose will sell copies of both books onsite following the presentation.

Author discussion, Q&A, and reception.

The book will be available for purchase in the library.