An Inaugural Reading & Conversation at Watermelon Books LA with Award-Winning Novelists Randa Jarrar & NANCY KRICORIAN
February 27 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm PST
Watermelon Books LA presents its first public event — a powerful evening of literature, solidarity, and shared histories of diaspora and genocide connecting Palestinian and Armenian experiences.
As survivors of ethnic cleansing and genocide, Armenian and Palestinian communities share intertwined histories of loss, endurance, and resistance that continue to inform liberation struggles and shape global solidarity today.
Through fiction and memoir, our featured authors explore the search for home across generations shaped by dispossession, displacement, and exile. Their works affirm writing as an act of resistance—one that preserves memory, asserts truth, and creates connections beyond borders.
NANCY KRICORIAN
Award-Winning novelist of the Armenian diaspora
Author of The Burning Heart of the World (2025), Zabelle(1998), Dreams of Bread and Fire (2003), and All the Light There Was (2013)
Nancy Kricorian is the author of four novels centered on post-genocide Armenian diaspora experience. Her most recent novel, The Burning Heart of the World, is set among Armenians in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War.. She has been a mentor with We Are Not Numbers <https://wearenotnumbers.org/> since 2015 and lives in New York. Learn more about Nancy at https://nancykricorian.net <https://nancykricorian.net/>
WHY THIS NIGHT MATTERS
This event reflects Watermelon Books’ commitment to building a cultural home rooted in history, truth, and literary resistance.
Stories connect us. Solidarity sustains us.