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Meet the Author - Maxim Shrayer
Join us at Books on the Square on Wednesday, March 29th at 6:00 p.m. when local author Maxim Shrayer reads and discusses his new book, Immigrant Baggage.
Immigrant Baggage: Morticians, Purloined Diaries, and Other Theatrics of Exile by Maxim D. Shrayer
“Maxim D. Shrayer writes like Nabokov’s long lost cousin. Funny, poignant, elegant and light on his feet, Shrayer serves up a banquet of émigré pleasures and sorrows, in the new world as well as the old. Immigrant Baggage is a compact, pang-filled, hilarious marvel.”--David Mikics, Moores Professor of Honors and English, University of Houston, and author of Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker
From a bilingual master of the literary memoir comes this moving and humorous story of losing immigrant baggage and trying to reclaim it for his American future.
Maxim D. Shrayer, bilingual author and scholar, was born in Moscow in 1967 to a Jewish-Russian family with Ukrainian and Lithuanian roots and spent over eight years as a refusenik. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, Dr. Karen E. Lasser, a medical researcher and physician, and their daughters Mira and Tatiana.
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