Book Talk: Lauren Camp (September 8 JCC)

In partnership with the JCC Susan Kanterman Book Club and with funding from the Thomases Family Foundation, Fall Literary Festival featured poet Lauren Camp will give a virtual talk and Q&A on her book One Hundred Hungers. 

This reading will take place Monday, September 8 at the Youngstown JCC. Coffee and dessert will be served at 6:30 p.m followed by the virtual talk at 7:00 p.m. This event is free with registration, which is required. Register here at least 24 hours in advance. You may attend the discussion at the JCC or on Zoom. 

In her Dorset Prize-winning collection, poet Lauren Camp explores the lives of a first-generation Arab-American girl and her Jewish-Iraqi parent. One Hundred Hungers tells overlapping stories of food and ritual, immigration and adaptation, evoking her father’s boyhood in 1940s Baghdad, a time when tensions began to emerge along ethnic and religious lines.