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SPECIAL AUTHOR EVENT:
Sasha Abramsky
THE AUTHOR


SASHA ABROMSKY

Sasha was born in England in 1972, grew up in London, and studied politics, philosophy, and economics at Balliol College, Oxford. He got his B.A. in 1993 and moved to New York to study journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He lived in the Big Apple for ten years, before moving to California in 2003. He currently lives in Sacramento with his wife and two kids.

He teaches writing one day a week at the U.C. Davis writing program, is a fellow at the New York City-based Demos Think Tank, and spends most of the rest of his work-time reporting and writing magazine articles and books. For the past two years, he has worked on Voices of Poverty: A Narrative of America's Poor. It has provided the material for his book on poverty-21st-century-style, The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives Here. His previous book, Inside Obama's Brain, was published in December 2009.
 
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29TH
7:00 - 9:00 PM
BETH CHAIM CONGREGATION
SANCTUARY
Beth Chaim Congregation, in conjunction with Rakestraw Books of Danville, invites you to a special evening to meet author Sasa Abramsky as he discusses his latest book, a memoir entitled The House of Twenty-Thousand Books, which came out in September 2013, and was listed by the New York Times as one of the 100 Notable Books of the Year. 

It is a family memoir about his grandparents, Chimen and Miriam Abramsky, and of their unique home at 5 Hillway in London, England. In their semi-detached house, so deceptively ordinary from the outside, they created a remarkable House of Books. It became the repository for Chimen's collection of thousands upon thousands of books, manuscripts and other printed, handwritten and painted documents, representing his journey through the great political, philosophical, religious and ethical debates that have shaped the western world. Here is a video trailer for the book:




This event is open to the public and there is no charge to attend. No RSVP is necessary. 
Books will be available for purchase and 
light refreshments will be served.