Award-Winning Author, Deaf Rights Activist To Speak In Montclair

MONTCLAIR, NJ — An award-winning author, professor and deaf rights activist, Sara Novic, is coming to Montclair for a free event as part of the Bnai Keshet Book Club.

Bnai Keshet in Montclair will host Novic, as well as illustrator Alison Kolesar, who will speak about their newly released book, “America is Immigrants,” on Tuesday, Jan. 28.

The “evening of community building and book discussion” takes place from 8 to 10 p.m. at Bnai Keshet, 99 South Fullerton Avenue in Montclair. Registration is required; sign up here. For additional information and for those interested in sponsoring, contact Laura at BK.BookClubNJ.NJ@gmail.com.

According to organizers, the event will include an interview of Novic by filmmaker and event organizer Laura Wald, (ASL interpreter provided), a question-and-answer session with the audience, an interactive game of Pictionary with Kolesar and a diverse sampling of food from local immigrant-owned businesses, The United Tastes of America and Gladys Catering.

“This book is a compilation of mini-biographies of real-life immigrants that came to this country from all over the world and made it the great place it is today,” Wald said.

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