Pen Parentis February Literary Salon: "On Displacement"

What does it mean to be displaced? How do the children of displaced persons feel about their national identity? Are we who we are, or where we come from? What do we owe our parents’ homelands?

Sonja Curry Johnson is a political activist, English teacher, expert on identity politics, and author of upcoming novel Strike The Thick World Flat Viktoria Peitchev grew up outside of Munich, Germany. Exile in Orbitis her first publication. Sergio Troncoso is the author of The Last Tortilla and Other Stories, Crossing Borders: Personal Essays, and the novels The Nature of Truthand From This. Born in El Paso, Texas, his writing centers on immigration and the US-Mexico border.

In continued celebration of their Tenth Anniversary of Literary Salons in Lower Manhattan, Pen Parentis presents these three authors at their new location: the Hideout at Killarney Rose (80 Beaver Street) on Tuesday February 12th from 7pm to 9:30pm. The authors will all read on the theme of displacement. Q&A will follow, centering around work-life balance. All authors presented at Pen Parentis are also parents - the series aims to shatter the stereotype of what parents write by presenting the creative diversity of high quality work by professional writers who have kids.