Alejandro Heredia, Andre Aciman, Madeleine Thien
What does it mean to belong when home is lost—or never offered? In this powerful discussion, Booker Prize-shortlisted author Madeleine Thien (The Book of Records) joins André Aciman (Call Me By Your Name, Roman Year), and Alejandro Heredia (Loca) to explore the immigrant experience as a perpetual metamorphosis.
“We were elsewhere people,” writes Whiting Award-winner André Aciman in his recent memoir, Roman Year, a follow-up to Out of Egypt, his acclaimed 1995 memoir of exile and displacement. Meanwhile, Madeleine Thien fractures timelines to show displacement as history's cruel constant, while Alejandro Heredia's debut, Loca, illuminates 90s Bronx queer communities forging kinship in the cracks of rejection.
Date
Jun 21, 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Featuring
Alejandro Heredia
Alejandro Heredia is a writer from the Bronx. He has received fellowships from LAMBDA Literary, Dominican Studies Institute, UNLV’s Black Mountain Institute, and elsewhere. He received an MFA in fiction from Hunter College. Loca is his debut novel.
André Aciman
André Aciman was born in Alexandria, Egypt and is an American memoirist, essayist, novelist, and scholar. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Call Me by Your Name and Find Me as well as of Out of Egypt. His new memoir, My Roman Year, was released in October 2024, his three novellas titled Room on the Sea will be published in June 2025.
Madeleine Thien
Madeleine Thien is the author of four books, including Do Not Say We Have Nothing, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, The New York Review of Books, and elsewhere. She lives in Montreal.
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