Fri, Sep 27
|Backstory English Bookshop
Swerving Home: a Backstory
As travelers and ex-pats know, leaving home forces the question of where home really is. Join author and professor, Marianne Maili, and editor and librarian, Kristi Hovington, for a lively conversation, a Q&A, and an inspiring writing prompt about what we mean when we talk about home.
Time & Location
Sep 27, 2024, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Backstory English Bookshop, C/ de Mallorca, 330, L'Eixample, 08037 Barcelona, Spain
About the event
About the hosts:
Marianne Maili is an author and professor. She pioneered the acceptance of creative dissertation work in Spain when she earned a groundbreaking PhD in The Construction and Representation of Cultural Identities at the University of Barcelona. In addition to teaching and editing, she is known for the award-winning novel Lucy, go see. (2018) and the creative memoir I am home. (2023), which chronicles her return to the US after more than two decades abroad. In it, she explores where “home" really is. Before becoming a mother then a graduate student, Marianne traveled extensively throughout the world working as a model and actress and has made homes in the USA, France, and Spain, along with shorter-term homes working in Japan, Hong Kong, and Austria. She has lived in Barcelona since last year.
Kristi Hovington has made new homes in three different countries: the USA, Germany, and Spain. For over two decades, she worked in corporate communications in the United States, writing and managing press releases for multinational corporations and ghost writing published articles for corporate executives. For the last five years, Kristi has been a librarian and an editor, aligning her professional life with the love of her life: books. As a school librarian here in Barcelona, she sponsors creative writing and book clubs, and is one of Goodreads top 100 book reviewers. Her favorite books of 2024, so far, are Percival Everett's masterpiece, James, and Gerardo Sámano Córdova's Mostrillio.