International Fiction with Aaron Hamburger and Weina Dai Randel 

Hotel Cuba & Night Angels 

Monday, November 13th at 1pm 

Performing Arts Center, East Entrance, Arts and Education Building, The J Creve Coeur 

Aaron Hamburger's Hotel Cuba

Fleeing the chaos of World War I and the terror of the Soviet Revolution, practical, sensible Pearl Kahn and her lovestruck, impulsive younger sibling Frieda sail for America to join their sister in New York. But discriminatory new immigration laws bar their entry, and the young women are turned back at Ellis Island. With few options, Pearl and Frieda head for Havana, Cuba, convinced they will find a way to overcome this setback. A heartbreaking, epic family story, Hotel Cuba explores the profound courage
of two women displaced from their home who strive to create a new future in an enticing and dangerous world far different from anything they have ever known. 

Weina Dai Randel's Night Angels

1938. Dr. Ho Fengshan, consul general of China, is posted in Vienna with his American wife, Grace. Shy and ill at ease with the societal obligations of diplomats’ wives, Grace is an outsider in a city beginning to feel the sweep of the Nazi dragnet. When Grace forms a friendship with her Jewish tutor, Lola Schnitzler, Dr. Ho requests that Grace keep her distance. His instructions are to maintain amicable relations with the Third Reich, and he and Grace are already under their vigilant eye. Inspired by a remarkable true story, Night Angels explores the risks brave souls took and the love and friendship they built and lost while fighting against incalculable evil.

General Admission: $30