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SUMMARY:Showcase of Ohio authors from Tin House:
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DESCRIPTION:Join us on Zoom for a conversation with Eman Quotah  and Daisy
  Hernandez\, as they discuss their latest books published by Tin House..\n
 https://cuyahoga.libnet.info/event/4840379
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p><strong>This event will be broadcast live 
 on Zoom.&nbsp\;Registration and an email address are required to rec
 eive the link to participate. </strong></p>\n<p>Order your copies of
  the authors' books from Mac&rsquo\;s Backs &ndash\; Books on Coventry:<br
  /><a href="https://www.macsbacks.com/book/9781951142452"><strong><em>Brid
 e of the Sea</em></strong> by Eman Quotah&nbsp\;</a><br /><a href="https:/
 /www.macsbacks.com/book/9781951142391"><strong><em>White Magic</em></stron
 g> by Elissa Washuta</a><br /><a href="https://www.macsbacks.com/book/9781
 951142520"><strong><em>The Kissing Bug</em></strong> by Daisy Hernandez</a
 ></p>\n<hr />\n<p><em>About the authors:</em></p>\n<p><br /><img src="http
 s://attend.cuyahogalibrary.org/images/editor/cuyahoga/Quotah_BrideoftheSea
 .jpg" width="195" height="302" alt="" style="float: left\; margin: 0px 20p
 x 20px 0px\;" /><strong>Eman Quotah</strong> grew up in Jidda\, Saudi Arab
 ia\, and Cleveland\, Ohio. Her writing has appeared in&nbsp\;The Washingto
 n Post\, USA Today\,&nbsp\;The Toast\, The Establishment\, Book Riot\, and
  other publications. She lives with her family in Washington\, DC.<br /><b
 r />Eman Quotah&rsquo\;s&nbsp\;<em><strong>Bride of the Sea</strong></em>&
 nbsp\;is a spellbinding debut of colliding cultures\, immigration\, religi
 on\, and family\; an intimate portrait of loss and healing\; and\, ultimat
 ely\, a testament to the ways we find ourselves inside love\, distance\, a
 nd heartbreak.&nbsp\;During a snowy Cleveland February\, newlywed universi
 ty students Muneer and Saeedah are expecting their first child\, and he is
  harboring a secret: the word&nbsp\;<em>divorce&nbsp\;</em>is whispering i
 n his ear. Soon\, their marriage will end\, and Muneer will return to Saud
 i Arabia\, while Saeedah remains in Cleveland with their daughter\, Hanadi
 . Consumed by a growing fear of losing her daughter\, Saeedah disappears w
 ith the little girl\, leaving Muneer to desperately search for his daughte
 r for years. The repercussions of the abduction ripple outward\, not only 
 changing the lives of Hanadi and her parents\, but also their interwoven f
 amily and friends&mdash\;those who must choose sides and hide their own de
 eply guarded secrets.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><br /><br /><strong><img src="https
 ://attend.cuyahogalibrary.org/images/editor/cuyahoga/Hernandez_KissingBug.
 jpg" width="195" height="301" alt="" style="float: left\; margin: 0px 20px
  20px 0px\;" />Daisy Hern&aacute\;ndez</strong>&nbsp\;is a former reporter
  for&nbsp\;<em>The New York Times</em>&nbsp\;and has been writing about th
 e intersections of race\, immigration\, class\, and sexuality for almost t
 wo decades. She edited&nbsp\;<em>Colonize This! Young Women of Color on To
 day&rsquo\;s Feminism&nbsp\;and Colorlines</em>\, a newsmagazine on race a
 nd politics\, and she has written for&nbsp\;<em>National Geographic</em>\,
  NPR&rsquo\;s&nbsp\;<em>All Things Considered</em>\,&nbsp\;<em>Code Switch
 </em>\,&nbsp\;<em>The Atlantic</em>\, Slate\, and Guernica. She is the aut
 hor of the award-winning memoir&nbsp\;<em>A Cup of Water Under My Bed</em>
 \, and is a professor at Miami University in Ohio.</p>\n<p><strong><em>The
  Kissing Bug</em></strong>&nbsp\;tells the story of how poverty\, racism\,
  and public policies have conspired to keep the disease Chagas hidden&mdas
 h\;and how the disease intersects with Hern&aacute\;ndez&rsquo\;s own iden
 tity as a niece\, sister\, and daughter\; a queer woman\; a writer and res
 earcher\; and a citizen of a country that is only beginning to address the
  harms caused by Chagas\, and the dangers it poses.&nbsp\;Growing up in a 
 New Jersey factory town in the 1980s\, Daisy Hern&aacute\;ndez believed th
 at her aunt had become deathly ill from eating an apple. No one in her fam
 ily\, in either the United States or Colombia\, spoke of infectious diseas
 es\, and even into her thirties\, she only knew that her aunt had died of 
 a rare illness called Chagas. But as Hern&aacute\;ndez dug deeper\, she di
 scovered that Chagas&mdash\;or the kissing bug disease&mdash\;is more prev
 alent in the United States than the Zika virus. Today\, more than three hu
 ndred thousand Americans have Chagas. Why do some infectious diseases make
  headlines and others fall by the wayside? After her aunt&rsquo\;s death\,
  Hern&aacute\;ndez begins searching for answers about who our nation choos
 es to take care of and who we ignore.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\nhttps:
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