Learn about the siblings she never met and heal the wounds of her past. We are joined by esther and her son awardwinning novelist Jonathan Safran foer, author of everything is illuminated, extremely loud and very close and as well as the nonfiction books feeding animals and we are the weather. Jonathans debut novel was inspired by his journey to trochenbrod in the ukraine to find a family that hidafather and while his search turned up nothing the success of the novel awakened worldwide interest in trochenbrod that led to new careers for esther. Armed with a handdrawn map esther made the trip to ukraine and found more than she ever hoped she would. We are honored to have both esther and jonathan with us tonight for their first public dialogue about thebook. So before we begin a few quick things to note. Tonights conversation will follow with an audience q and a and you can submit your questions into the chat box and we will do our best to get to as many as we can but we have hundreds of
And her in her starring literary debut she recounts her remarkable journey to find the family that hit her father during the war, learn about the siblings she never met and shield the wounds of her past. We are joined by esther and her son awardwinning novelist Jonathan Safran foer author of everything is illuminated, incredibly loud and extremely close and feeding animals and we are the weather. Jonathans debut novel everything is illuminated was inspired by his journey in ukraine to find a family that hid esthers father. The success of the novel awakened worldwide interest that led to new roads for esther, armed with a map esther made the trip to ukraine herself and found more than she ever hoped she would. We are honored to have both esther and jonathan with us today for what is to be their first public dialogue about the book, a very exciting occasion indeed so before we begin a few quick things to note. Tonights conversation will follow withan audience q a and you can submit your