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
Here. Esther is the former executive director of the historic synagogue in washington dc and its a storied literary debussy recounts a remarkable journey to find the families that hit her father during the war and learn about the siblings she never met and to heal the wounds of her past. We are joined tonight by esther and her son, awardwinning novelist [inaudible], author of everything is illuminated, strangely loud and close and here i am as well as the acclaimed nonfiction work, eating animals and, we are the weather but jonathans debut novel was inspired by his journey to the [inaudible] in ukraine to find the family that hit esthers father. While his search turned up nothing the novel awakened worldwide interest but led to new clues for esther britt armed with the tattered black and white photo and a handdrawn map esther finally made the trip to ukraine herself and have found more than she ever hoped she would. We are honored to have esther and jonathan with us tonight for this to
D. C. She recounts her remarkable journey to find the family that hid her father during the war, learn about the siblings she never met and healed the wounds of her past. We are joined by esther and her son, author of everything is illuminated extreme a loud and incredibly close and here i am m as well as the nonfiction works we are the weather. The debut novel everything is illuminated was inspired by the journey in ukraine to find the family that hid her father. His research turned up nothing but lead to new clues for esth esther. She finally made the trip herself and found more than she ever hoped she would. We are honored to have both esther and jonathan with us tonight to be the first public dialogue about the book. A very exciting occasion indeed. Before we begin, a few quick things to note, the conversation will follow with audience qanda and you can do it them in the chance and we will do our best to get to as many questions as they can. We have hundreds of viewers and many que
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
Author of everything is illuminated, extremely loud and incredibly close and here i am as well as the nonfiction work eating animals and eating the weather. Jonathans book everything is illuminated was inspired by his journey to ukraine to find a family that hid esthers father. The success of the novel awakened worldwide interest that led to new careers for esther. Armed with a tattered black and white photo and a handdrawn map, esther finally made the trip to ukraine herself found more than she ever hoped she would. We are honored to have both esther and jonathan with us for what is to be there for public dialogue about the book. But before we begin a few quick things to note. Tonights conversation will follow with an audience q a and you can submit your questions into the chat box and we will do our best to get to as many questions as we can but bear with us because we have hundreds of your snide and very many questions to get through. This program is being recorded live and will be