Events & Calendars Fiction Reading: Maaza Mengiste

Maaza Mengiste is a novelist and essayist. Her debut novel, Beneath the Lion’s GazeThe Guardian as one of the 10 best contemporary African books; The New York Times Book Review called it “an important novel, rich in compassion for its anguished characters.” Both Mengiste's fiction and her nonfiction examine the individual lives at stake during migration, war and exile, and can be found in The New Yorker, Granta and The New York Times and on BBC Radio, among other places. Mengiste was a writer on the social activist documentary film Girl Rising. Her second novel, The Shadow King, is forthcoming.

This event will be followed by refreshments.