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Start: 6:00 pm
When his daughter, Amy—a gifted doctor, mother, and wife—collapses and dies from an asymptomatic heart condition, Roger Rosenblatt and his wife, Ginny, leave their home on the South Shore of Long Island to move in with their son-in-law, Harris, and their three young grandchildren: six-year-old Jessica, four-year-old Sammy, and one-year-old James, known as Bubbies. Long past the years of diapers, homework, and recitals, Roger and Ginny — Boppo and Mimi to the kids — quickly reaccustom themselves to the world of small children: bedtime stories, talking toys, playdates, nonstop questions, and nonsequential thought. With the wit, heart, precision, and depth of understanding that has characterized his work, Rosenblatt peels back the layers on this most personal of losses to create both a tribute to his late daughter and a testament to familial love in Making Toast (Ecco, $21.99). The day Amy died, Harris told Ginny and Roger, "It's impossible." Roger's story tells how a family makes the possible of the impossible. 6pm
Start: 7:00 pm
Historias cortas del planeta Cuba ($14.99), cuentas por Ari Pinelli, plasma situaciones de la vida cotidiana en una isla, que a pesar de haberla hecho Dios un día en que estaba contento, se encuentra sumida en un mar de confusiones y gravemente enferma de presente. A través del prisma maravilloso de su escritor se revela un mundo que muchos se imaginan, pero que pocos pueden describir con tanta propiedad como quienes lo han vivido, o aún mejor, quienes lo han sufrido, porque entre diáspora y odio, todo el mundo sale lastimado, independientemente de hacia dónde se incline su filiación política o ideological. 7pm
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