Author Boris Fishman at Highland Park Public Library

Boris Fishman, author of A Replacement Life

Wednesday February 25 at 7:00 p.m.

Register at Highland Park Public Library at 847-432-0216

Boris Fishman was born in Belarus and immigrated to the United States at the age of nine. He is the editor of Wild East: Stories from the Last Frontier, and his work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, the New Republic, the Wall Street Journal, the London Review of Books, and other publications. He lives in New York City. A Replacement Life is his first novel.

“A straight-ahead story about committing fraud for all the right reasons love, family, and Holocaust restitution. Slava Gelman, lapsed Jew from a former Soviet republic, is a blocked writer who works at Century, a venerable magazine headquartered in Manhattan. Slava’s grandfather, Yevgeny, a notorious fixer and thug with a heart of gold, is always on the take. When it turns out that Slava’s recently deceased grandmother would have been eligible for reparations from the German government, Slava decides to forge the claim, grafting the scanty details of her terrible wartime experiences onto his grandfather’s. Soon, in part because of Slava’s burning desire to write, he is forging dozens of restitution claims.” Booklist

There will be a book signing following the program with books provided by Lake Forest Book Store.

Event date: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 - 7:00pm to 8:30pmEvent address: Highland Park Public Library494 Laurel Ave.Highland Park, IL60035