New York Irish Center in partnership with India Home present Finding Home: Our Immigrant Stories. As part of the Big Read grant supported by the National Endowment for the Arts by Arts Midwest, Finding Home presents a panel discussion featuring three women of Indian or Irish descent, discussing their respective journeys in America from their experience as immigrants.

Using the novel The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri as a disccusion point, the panel will discuss what it means to leave home for America and all that that journey entails, including adopting new cultural norms and retaining the customs of home, finding a footing in a foreign land, assimilating to American customs, and much more.

The panel will feature Mitra Kalita (CEO of URL Media & Publisher of Epicenter-NYC), Dr Nalini Juthani (ret. professor of Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine), and Irish novelist Yvonne Cassidy, followed by a Q&A, dance performance by Boo Samroo, and a delicious meal of Indian cusine.

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NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with

Arts Midwest.