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Author David Bezmozgis' The Free World: Reading and Discussion

Jewish Community Center of San Francisco -- Kanbar Hall (3200 California St. San Francisco, CA 94118)
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Award-winning writer and filmmaker David Bezmozgis reads from and discusses his first novel, The Free World, with McSweeney's Eli Horowitz. Named one of the "Top 20 Under 40" authors by The New Yorker, Bezmozgis's first book Natasha and Other Storieswas well-received commercially and critically. The Free World is set in the late '70s, and tells the story of a Latvian family waiting in Rome with other Russian Jews for clearance to emigrate to North America.

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In conversation with Eli Horowitz, McSweeney's
Join the JCCSF for an evening with Latvian-born author David Bezmozgis. Named one of the “Top 20 Under 40” by The New Yorker, Bezmozgis will read from his debut novel The Free World, the unofficial prequel to his collection, Natasha and Other Stories. Set in the late 70s, during the Cold War, The Free World follows a Russian-Jewish family en route from their homeland in Latvia to Rome where along with thousands of other Russian Jews they are held over for months awaiting for clearance to emigrate to North America.

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