Last Saturday, Naja Marie Aidt (longlisted for the National Book Award in Translated Literature) and Valeria Luiselli (Coffee House Press contributing editor and recent recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant) discussed Aidt's new memoir, When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back: Carl's Book, in front of a packed house at Brookline Booksmith, Brookline, Mass. The event was part of the store's Transnational Series, which focuses on books concerned with migration, displacement and exile, with particular emphasis on works in translation. (photo: Bradley Trumpfheller)Image of the Day: Brookline Booksmith's Transnational Series
Last Saturday, Naja Marie Aidt (longlisted for the National Book Award in Translated Literature) and Valeria Luiselli (Coffee House Press contributing editor and recent recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant) discussed Aidt's new memoir, When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back: Carl's Book, in front of a packed house at Brookline Booksmith, Brookline, Mass. The event was part of the store's Transnational Series, which focuses on books concerned with migration, displacement and exile, with particular emphasis on works in translation. (photo: Bradley Trumpfheller)