Schmooze with the Author: Nadia Kalman June 12, 2012

A finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize in Jewish Literature, this warm and exuberantly comic debut tells the story of the Molochniks, Russian-Jewish immigrants in suburban Connecticut. Daughters wed, houses flood, cultures clash…and the past has a way of emerging at the most inconvenient moments (and in the strangest ways.) Equal parts Jane Austen and Gogol, The Cosmopolitans casts a sharp and sympathetic eye on the foibles and rewards of family and life in America. Nadia Kalman is a 2011 Sami Rohr Prize Finalist. As a child, Nadia Kalman emigrated with her family from the former Soviet Union. Formerly a middle-school teacher and assistant principal, she now works as a writer-in-the-schools in New York City. She recently won the 2011 Moment Magazine Emerging Writers Award for Fiction. For more information or to RSVP to an event, call 408.357.7411 or email [email protected]

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