Paradiso 17: Hannah Lillith Assadi with Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Tue, Mar 24
|City Lights Booksellers & Publishers
Join us for an evening with Hannah Lillith Assadi as she discusses her intimate, sweeping new novel Paradiso 17 with National Book Award & Pulitzer-finalist Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Time & Location
Mar 24, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA
About The Event
Co-presented with City Lights Booksellers
Join us for an evening with Hannah Lillith Assadi as she discusses her intimate, sweeping new novel Paradiso 17 with National Book Award & Pulitzer-finalist Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Already hailed as a major new work on the legacy of the 1948 Nakba, Paradiso 17 follows Sufien as he's forced to leave the only home he’s ever known for the dusty, oil-rich desert of Kuwait, a small Italian university town, a gritty New York, and, finally, the wild, vast open skies of the Arizona desert. Loosely inspired by Assadi’s father, the novel traces a life shaped by displacement, love, and loss, offering a lyrical and deeply personal portrait of war, migration, and the fragile resilience that carries us forward. FREE, no RSVP required
------------------------------------
Hannah Lillith Assadi, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, teaches fiction at the Columbia University School of the Arts and the…