Three acclaimed international authors explore the effect of silence and untold stories on their characters. In The Ghetto Within, Santiago H. Amigorena portrays a Polish emigre in Argentina haunted by the fate of his mother in the Warsaw Ghetto; Swedish author Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s Sisters reveals guarded family stories that bond and fracture relationships of three sisters who believe they are cursed. Canadian novelist Madeleine Thien’s The Book of Records takes place in a time shifting refugee enclave called The Sea where stories of historical intellectual exiles intersect with a daughter’s understanding of her father’s guilt in his family’s tragic past. Memory and guilt underpin silence in these books about the power of stories told and untold. Moderated by Camille U. Adams, author of How to Be Unmothered: A Trinidadian Memoir.
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