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Join PEN Award finalist Jeanne Carstensen, in conversation with Frances Dinkelspiel, for the paperback launch party for A GREEK TRAGEDY, with live rebetika music.
The author: Jeanne Carstensen, in conversation with Frances Dinkelspiel
The book: A Greek Tragedy: One Day, A Deadly Shipwreck, and the Human Cost of the Refugee Crisis (Atria/One Signal, 2025)
The band: Gregory Masaki Jenkins & friends
Wine and cheese will be served!
Jeanne Carstensen is an award-winning journalist and the author of A Greek Tragedy: One Day, a Deadly Shipwreck, and the Human Cost of the Refugee Crisis (2025), a finalist for the 2026 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the California Book Award. Author Héctor Tobar called it “essential reading for anyone hoping to understand the migrations and injustices of our modern world.” Jeanne lives in Glen Park and is thrilled to celebrate her paperback release at Bird and Beckett.
Frances Dinkelspiel is a widely published journalist and author of two award-winning books, Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California and Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession, and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California.
Gregory Masaki Jenkins — voice, baglamas, tzouras, bouzouki — leads the Bay Area rebetika group Disciples of Markos. Rebetika is a mixture of Greek folk music and the Turkish music brought to Greece by Greek refugees from Turkey in the 1920s. Tonight he’ll perform with
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