Three new books explore family histories across generations and geography: Albert Samaha’s memoir Concepcion centers on his mother’s decision to leave Manila for the United States, Hala Alyan’s novel The Arsonists’ City on an international Syrian/Lebanese family’s clash over the sale of their familial home, and Gabriela Garcia’s novel Of Women of Salt on three generations of Latina women in nineteenth-century Cuba and present-day Miami.

• Moderator: Dalia Azim, author of forthcoming Country of Origin (A Strange Object, March 2022)
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Hala Alyan, Gabriela Garcia, Albert Samaha, The Arsonists’ City, Of Women and Salt, Concepcion: An Immigrant Family’s Fortunes