How can stories repeat and reverberate and release us from the tyranny of our mistakes, our traumas, and our confusions?
In her groundbreaking memoir, Sad Tiger (tr. Natasha Lehrer), Neige Sinno confronts the lasting impact of childhood abuse, examining how the past persists, and how literature can help us face it. Blending personal testimony with reflections on writers like Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov, and Toni Morrison, Sinno probes the limits of language in capturing trauma while insisting on the necessity of trying.
In a discussion moderated by acclaimed poet and author Meghan O’Rourke, Sinno explores how, in the midst of darkness, explores how speaking, questioning, and storytelling can become acts of resistance and transformation.
