Please join us to welcome Adria Bernardi as she reads from her oral history, Houses with Names: The Italian Immigrants of Highwood, Illinois (1990). She will also share excerpts from writings that grew out of Houses with Names, including her novel, Openwork (2007), and her recent novel, Benefit Street (2022). Like Houses with Names, these novels continue her investigation of emigration, the building of new lives in a new country, and how the generativeness of the elders allows one to find a way to make things that are broken whole again. She’ll discuss her journey as a writer and as a translator from Italian.  Please click on the link below to register.