Ghita Schwarz reads from Displaced Persons
Our talented neighbor Ghita Schwarz is a civil rights litigator specializing in immigrants’ rights, and the child of postwar Jewish immigrants. In her debut novel Displaced Persons, Ghita distills the disparate experiences of the hundreds of thousands of ordinary men, women and children who lived as refugees following World War II, living in camps in Allied-occupied Europe before buildi...ng new lives, families and homelands around the world. In haunting, unsentimental prose that mimics the characters’ native cadences of Yiddish and Polish, the novel explores the self-conscious strivings of a community that sees survival as a lifelong project, and the ordinary, imperfect people who are neither mythically noble nor irrevocably broken. Join us for the launch of a novel that brings joy, sadness, love, loss, humor, anger and hope into the present and future. RSVP on Facebook (optional)
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