Scarsdale Adult School Catalog Spring/Summer 2024
Author Visit: Etaf Rum, Evil Eye (2023) Meet Etaf Rum, New York Times bestselling author of A Woman Is No Man , in conversation with Anna Katsavos as they discuss Rum's second novel, Evil Eye (2023). This contemporary fiction depicts the complicated family relationships and tensions in the life of a Palestinian American woman. The protagonist Yara, a wife and mother of two girls, raised in Brooklyn within a tight Palestinian expatriate community, has honored some cultural traditions, including an arranged marriage, while resisting others, such as wearing a hijab. Feeling unfulfilled in what would appear to be a good life in North Carolina where she earned a master's degree and a job at a local college, she revisits her volatile childhood and conflicts involving her own angry and troubled mother who never considered leaving her abusive marriage. ETAFRUM is the author of A Woman Is No Man (2019) and Evil Eye (2023). Similar in background to the protagonists of her two novels, Rum was born and raised in Brooklyn to Palestinian parents in a culturally traditional family. She entered into an arranged marriage at a young age, moved to North Carolina, had two children, and earned a BA, BS, and MA at North
Carolina State University. She teaches literature at a local community college. ANNA KATSAVOS (see bio for “Author Visit: Alice McDermott, Absolution (2023)”).
Monday, July 15 • 10:00am-11:00am • Zoom • Course 12659 • $30 Author Visit: Talia Carner, The Boy With The Star Tattoo (2024)
Meet Talia Carner in conversation with Anna Katsavos as they discuss Carner's latest novel, The Boy with the Star Tattoo (2024). This epic historical novel weaves two yet-untold events set in France. The first is set in 1946 in the aftermath of the Holocaust, when agents from Eretz Israel roamed the European country-side to rescue hidden Jewish orphans (Youth Aliyah). The second is set in 1969, relating to the daring escape of the boats of Cherbourg, in Normandy, which were commissioned and paid for by Israel but whose delivery was blocked by a French arms embargo. Sharon, the assistant to an Israeli naval officer stationed in Cherbourg, is set to unravel the mystery of his journey from a French village to Israel. She is unprepared for the moral dilemma she will face upon solving the
mystery. TALIA CARNER is the author of The Third Daughter , Hotel Moscow , Jerusalem Maiden , ChinaDoll , Puppet Child , and The Boy with the Star Tattoo , and was formerly a publisher of Savvy Woman magazine and consultant to Fortune 500 companies,. Dozens of Carner’s award-winning essays, articles, and short stories have appeared in anthologies, literary reviews, and leading websites. She is a committed supporter of global human rights and has spearheaded projects centered on the subjects of female plight.
ANNA KATSAVOS (see bio for “Author Visit: Alice McDermott, Absolution (2023)”). Monday, August 5 • 1:00pm-2:15pm • Zoom • Course 12651 • $30 Author Visit: Rachel Khong, Real Americans (2024)
Meet Rachel Khong in conversation with Anna Katsavos as they discuss Khong's second novel, Real Americans (2024). Bouncing back and forth in time, the novel weaves a suspenseful story about three generations of Chinese Americans in a manner that is part historical fiction and part family saga, with mysteries and secrets to unfold. Self-identity and the question of nature versus nurture play out in the telling of the lives of Lily, her teenage son Nick who discovers his father’s identity through a
DNA test, and her immigrant mother and geneticist May. RACHEL KHONG is the author of Goodbye, Vitamin , winner of the California Book Award for First Fiction, and now Real Americans (2024). Her work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review and the Guardian , among other publications.
ANNA KATSAVOS (see bio for “Author Visit: Alice McDermott, Absolution (2023)”). Monday, August 5 • 1:00pm-2:15pm • Zoom • Course 12651 • $30
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