Fall for the Book session with Carol Cleaveland and Michele Waslin

Fall for the Book 2024 session with Carol Cleaveland and Michele Waslin

Thursday, October 17, 2024 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM EDT
Fenwick Library, 4348

In their latest nonfiction books, author Leah Lax and co-authors Carol Cleaveland & Michele Waslin emphasize the importance of personal accounts of migration and upheaval. In Not From Here: The Song of America, Lax interweaves the stories of migration told to her in interviews from all over the world with her own personal history. Activist Gloria Steinem says, “Leah Lax understands that everyone has a story and a secret. To experience this ourselves, we have only to read her utterly irresistible Not from Here.” Cleaveland and Waslin examine the ways that victims of gender-based violence are failed by the US asylum process in Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum. After studying accounts of court proceedings and women’s testimony, the authors urge the courts to incorporate a gender-based lens to the process of granting asylum. 

Location: Fenwick Reading Room, 2nd Floor, Fenwick Library, 4348 Chesapeake River Lane, Fairfax

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