Author Abby Mendelson

Join local author, Abby Mendelson as he discusses his book, Reunion: Americans in Exile. He'll share highlights of the book's 16 stories about the lives of Americans torn from their places and their pasts. The stories go where Americans find themselves searching for connection, coping with aging and loss. Military men and missing persons, foreign service officers and fashion models, friends and lovers, grief groups and high-school reunions, Reunion presents a stunning series of portraits of characters and concerns, living and dying, present and past. People wrestling with the concerns of age and of our age. People living on edges, seeking to return, yearning for reunion.

All proceeds from book purchases go to the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank.

Mendelson is the award-winning author of Spirit to Spirit: a Portrait of Pittsburgh Jazz in the New Century, Paradise Boys, Scotch and Oranges, Ghost Dancer, End of the Road, and The Oakland Quartet.