Book Event

Friday, April 21, 2023

May 23 @ 7 PM - On the Landing: Stories by Yenta Mash




The East Meadow Public Library was awarded a book discussion grant by the Yiddish Book Center. The theme is Stories of Exile. Stories of Exile is a reading and discussion program to engage teens and adults in thinking about experiences of displacement, migration, and diaspora. Using Yiddish literature as a portal, the program will feature works in translation that explore narratives which grapple with questions of homelands, journeys, identity, and belonging. Reading groups will compare these works written in Yiddish in the early and mid-20th century to works by contemporary writers from all across the globe.

May 23 at 7:00 p.m. - On the Landing: Stories by Yenta Mash, translated by Ellen Cassedy

In these sixteen stories, available in English for the first time, prize-winning author Yenta Mash traces an arc across continents, across upheavals and regime changes, and across the phases of a woman’s life. Mash’s protagonists are often in transit, poised “on the landing” on their way to or from somewhere else. In imaginative, poignant, and relentlessly honest prose, translated from the Yiddish by Ellen Cassedy, Mash documents the lost world of Jewish Bessarabia, the texture of daily life behind the Iron Curtain in Soviet Moldova, and the challenges of assimilation in Israel. On the Landing opens by inviting us to join a woman making her way through her ruined hometown, recalling the colorful customs of yesteryear—and the night when everything changed. We then travel into the Soviet gulag, accompanying women prisoners into the fearsome forests of Siberia. In postwar Soviet Moldova, we see how the Jewish community rebuilds itself. On the move once more, we join refugees struggling to find their place in Israel. Finally, a late-life romance brings a blossoming of joy.

Register online by clicking on this link, or call us at 516-794-2570, option 3.

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

April 20 @ 7 PM - Meet the Author: Laurie Lico Albanese

MEET THE AUTHOR – LAURIE LICO ALBANESE

April 20 at 7:00 p.m.

We are honored to have native East Meadow-er Laurie Lico Albanese, visiting us to talk about her new best-selling book, Hester. Laurie will be signing copies of her book which will be for sale after the program.

Register online at www.eastmeadow.info or by calling 516-794-2570 option 3. 


COPIES ARE AVAILABLE AT THE LIBRARY

The eBook version of Hester can be accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.

Isobel Gamble is a young seamstress who sets sail from Scotland in the early 1800s with her husband, Edward. Only days after they’ve arrived in Salem, Edward abruptly joins a departing ship as a medic––leaving Isobel penniless and alone in a strange country, forced to make her way by any means possible. When she meets a young Nathaniel Hawthorne, the two are instantly drawn to each other: he is a man haunted by his ancestors, who sent innocent women to the gallows––while she is an unusually gifted needleworker, troubled by her own strange talents. As the weeks pass and Edward’s safe return grows increasingly unlikely, Nathaniel and Isobel grow closer and closer. Together, they are a muse and a dark storyteller; the enchanter and the enchanted. But which is which? Meticulously researched yet evocatively imagined, Hester is a timeless tale of art, ambition, and desire that examines the roots of female creative power and the men who try to shut it down.


Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Meet the Authors - April 18 @ 2 PM & April 20 @ 7 PM

 

MEET THE AUTHORS


April 18 at 2:00 p.m. - John Aldridge and Anthony Sosinski

We are so excited to have the authors of this year’s Long Island Reads book, A Speck in the Sea. John Aldridge and Anthony Sosinski will be here to answer questions about their harrowing experience and about being baymen on Long Island. Books will be available for sale at the program.

Registration begins Tuesday, April 4, either online at www.eastmeadow.info, or by calling 516-794-2570 option 3. First week of registration for East Meadow School District residents only. 



April 20 at 7:00 p.m. - Laurie Lico Albanese

We are honored to have native East Meadow-er Laurie Lico Albanese, visiting us to talk about her new best-selling book, Hester. Laurie will be signing copies of her book which will be for sale after the program.

Registration begins Monday, April 3, either online at www.eastmeadow.info, or by calling 516-794-2570 option 3. First week of registration for East Meadow School District residents only.

Here is some more information on this event.