Get Lit! Festival 2023

Join Farnaz Fatemi, Sindya Bhanoo and Vanessa A. Bee for a reading and conversation surrounding the concept of home and belonging. How do writers wrestle with the complex, often messy liminal spaces each of us inhabit daily? How can we use poetry and prose to define home and belonging? Farnaz’s poetry collection Sister Tongue خواهر زبان explores the space between family, language, and self as she meditates on how connections between people and places are shaped. Sindya’s short story collection Seeking Fortune Elsewhere centers on the journeys of South Indian immigrants and the families they leave behind, focusing on themes including diaspora and displacement. In her book of essays, Home Bound: Reflections of an Uprooted Daughter, Vanessa Bee reflects on her childhood traveling across both literal and figurative borders while searching for her identity and attempting to define what it means to belong.

To attend this event, you must purchase a Book Fair & Events Pass which covers entry into our two-day Book Fair and all 17 events taking place at the Montvale Event Center. Tickets will go on sale Monday, March 20th at 8am.