Book Event: Tamar Shapiro with Julia Phillips

Book Launch: Tamar Shapiro presents Restitution

In conversation with Julia Phillips

Wine reception to followBread Loaf alum Tamar Shapiro launches her debut novel Restitution, set against the backdrop of German reunification. As children in Central Illinois, Kate and Martin were never told much about their mother’s childhood in East Germany, and they rarely asked questions, too busy grappling with the heartache left behind by an absent father and the tough love of a mother forced to raise them alone in a country not her own. Decades later, when the Berlin Wall falls, they travel to their grandparents’ hometown and meet the couple now living in the house that once belonged to their mother. But a house is never just a house, and the family secrets they discover reopen old wounds, driving the siblings apart just as divided Germany is coming together. National bestselling author, and Shapiro's MFA mentor, Julia Phillips (Bear and Disappearing Earth) joins Shapiro for a discussion, before an audience Q&A and signing.

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