Aiyanna Sezak-Blatt will be reading from A Tangled Tree, a memoir and work of creative non-fiction that explores the story of three generations, as written by a daughter searching to accept her father’s eccentricity, beauty, rage and nomadic existence.

From the Holocaust to the present day, A Tangled Tree: My Father's Path to Immortality follows the echo of tragedy as it ripples across the surface of a family. It is the story of a daughter who dives in search of silent, swallowed stones, those ingested generations ago, passed down from mother, to father, to child. It weaves through time and space, charting the epic, beautiful and complex journey of a family’s profound and tangled tree of life.

Aiyanna Sezak-Blatt grew up on the island of Kauai where she gorged on mangos, chased after imaginary unicorns and freckled beneath a hot tropical sun. As a young woman, she traveled to Massachusetts to attend the Cambridge School of Weston for high school, and landed in New York to study at Sarah Lawrence College, where she received a BA in creative writing. She now devotes herself to writing amongst the rolling purple mountains of Western North Carolina where she lives and works in Asheville. This is her first book.