Scarsdale Adult School Catalog Spring/Summer 2024
Author Visit and Book Discussion: Thrity Umrigar, The Museum of Failures (2023) Meet best-selling author Thrity Umrigar in a half-hour conversation with Anna Katsavos as they discuss Umrigar's latest critically-acclaimed novel, The Museum of Failures (2023). Immediately after, dive into a book discussion. A story of family, frailty, and forgiveness, this book's focus is on the relationship between Remy Wadia who returns to visit his family in India after a long absence and his ailing, hospitalized mother. Newly disclosed family secrets cause Remy to reevaluate his entire childhood and his relationship to his parents at the point that he is about to become a parent himself. Grief, bewilderment, nostalgia, displacement, and guilt yield to redemption and healing in this heartfelt tale.
THRITY UMRIGAR is a best-selling author of the novels Bombay Time , The Space Between Us , If Today Be Sweet , The Weight of Heaven , The World We Found , The Story Hour , Everybody’s Son , The Secrets Between Us , and Honor . She
has also published a memoir and three children’s picture books along with many essays and articles. She is currently a Distinguished University Professor of English at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. She was raised in Bombay, India, as a Parsi child attending a Catholic school in a predominantly Hindu country before coming to the United States at age 21. Her latest novel, The Museum of Failures, was named a best book of 2023 by NPR and others. ANNA KATSAVOS (see bio for “Author Visit: Alice McDermott, Absolution (2023)”).
Monday, March 25 • 1:00pm-2:30pm • Zoom • Course 12441 • $30
Author Visit and Book Discussion: Asha Lemmie, The Wildest Sun (2023)
Meet Asha Lemmie, New York Times bestselling author of Fifty Words for Rain , in conversation with Anna Katsavos as they discuss Lemmie's latest novel, The Wildest Sun (2023). Immediately after, dive into a book discussion. This sweeping and evocative coming-of-age story follows a young woman escaping her past in postwar Paris as she
searches for the larger-than-life man, Ernest Hemingway, whom she believes to be her father. This book is an entrancing and surprising portrait of a young woman's struggle to find her identity in the midst of both personal and political turmoil. ASHA LEMMIE is the New York Times bestselling author of Fifty Words For Rain and The Wildest Sun . She holds a BA in English Literature from Boston College and is a graduate student at Columbia University. Her historical fiction writing focuses on bringing unique perspectives to life. ANNA KATSAVOS (see bio for “Author Visit: Alice McDermott, Absolution (2023)”). Tuesday, April 9 • 1:00pm-2:15pm • Zoom • Course 12578 • $30
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