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 jenessa@svjcc.org

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