Join Space2b in
HOME AND BELONGING BOOK LAUNCH
Thursday 22 September 2022 6 – 8pm
Space2b is hosting a special evening of literature, food and drink, aptly named Home and Belonging.
Our guests, Pirooz Jafari, author of Forty Nights and Janine Mikosza, author of Homesickness will discuss their books and basically have a ‘heart yarn about home and belonging’.
Do something nice for yourself and join us for this compelling discussion. Delicious ‘mezza’ will be provided by Flavours of Syria Café
Space2b Social Design 144 Chapel St St Kilda
ABOUT THE BOOKS
Forty Nights
Spanning continents and centuries, Forty Nights is a tale of the ongoing effects of dispossession and dislocation – a struggle humankind has faced long into its past. Ultimately it is the story of finding home, wherever that might be.
‘An accomplished, beautiful novel’ ABC radio National, The Book Show
Homesickness
In this memoir, through both her words and illustrations, Janine Mikosza revisits the fourteen houses she lived in before turning eighteen. Homesickness explores how we remember, the myriad ways a child’s trauma lives on in an adult’s body, responsibility versus accountability, and the shift from silence to finding a voice. It is about finally being believed when speaking the truth, and the consequences of a decades-long silence
‘This transformative relationship between truth and storytelling shines through in Homesickness. Mikosza’s approach is not only brave; it is giving, and vitally important.’ The Conversation