# Event Details - **Event Name**: War Boys Reading and Discussion with Jason Prokowiew and Sara Alterman - **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 25 Jul, 2026 at 01:00 pm – Sat, 25 Jul, 2026 at 03:00 pm - **Event Description**: Join us for a discussion with the author of gripping and timely memoir War Boys, winner of the 2025 Aurora Polaris Award.About this EventTickets are not required to attend this event -- they just ensure you a seat.Purchasing the featured books is not required to attend this event, but are a great way to support the authors and show the store that you love events like these and ensure that we get to do more of them! https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/199184f0-87ba-11f1-8897-d1c887d26697-rimg-w500-h740-dc032c4b-gmir.jpg War Boys is a vital and timely exploration of how war impacts families for generations. Following his father's escape from Belarus during WWII, Prokowiew traces the ripple effect that reached down the generation to impact his own life and relationships. An essential read for family history and intergenerational storytelling."This fusion of multigenerational story and global memoir written to reflect the consequences of war on the millions of children displaced by conflict throughout history is 23 years in the making. This gripping book, timely for its anti-war and anti-displacement themes, is also relatable because of its nature as a story about the fraught relationship between a parent and child. Prokowiew grounds his narrative about a young boy growing up in a war, inside the story of a son later interviewing his father about that impossible experience. This story, thanks to Prokowiew’s inventiveness, demonstrates the ways in which a single oral history can touch on the lives of many. And Prokowiew’s own self-reflection on the interview process speaks to the possibilities through which any who desire to learn more about themselves and where they come from can do so as well. Who makes us and how they are made, how the stories they tell can shape the way we see them and the world we live in: this is what oral history is about."— From the Judges’ Citation for the PEN America/Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History "Jason’s is a story that speaks to the intergenerational impact of war, tracing his father’s experience as a desperate orphan surviving and then escaping Nazi-occupied Belarus and how this experience shaped the abusive suburban American household where Jason was raised. Excavating this past, Jason reveals insights that speak to our present, where hundreds of thousands of refugees are now fleeing a Ukraine under siege. How do we survive war without damaging our humanity, and how can we rout out the traumas of war before they are passed down to our children? Jason’s book is needed."— Alysia Abbot, author of Fairyland https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events6/banners/1a6eeca0-87ba-11f1-a8a4-631b175f3d78-rimg-w493-h740-dcdf478d-gmir.jpg Jason Prokowiew will be in discussion with Sara Alterman, author of Let's Never Talk About This Again. Exploring her own complicated family dynamics with her father, who she was startled to learn was a popular erotica writer.... and following a diagnosis with Alzheimer's, wanted her help to resurrect his writing career.Sara provides great perspective on nuance, writing about family, and finding meaning in the day to day.Agenda?: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PMDiscussion with Jason Prokowiew and Sara Alterman?: 02:00 PMWar Boys and Let’s Never Talk About This Again Signing - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/enfield/war-boys-reading-and-discussion-with-jason-prokowiew-and-sara-alterman/100001993752404111 - **Event Categories**: fitness, Art, literary-art - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 2 hours - Location: Barnes & Noble - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Enfield - **state**: CT - **country**: United States - **location**: Barnes & Noble - **lat**: 41.9912581 - **long**: -72.57966139999999 - **full address**: Barnes & Noble, 25 Hazard Avenue, Enfield, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: War Boys Reading and Discussion with Jason Prokowiew and Sara Alterman - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events9/banners/9791d29982c04a277bd3b72673b3f97fe70edc5bc47e497fcad03be92aad5f3e-rimg-w1200-h600-dc131313-gmir.jpg?v=1784090046 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is War Boys Reading and Discussion with Jason Prokowiew and Sara Alterman being held? - **A:** War Boys Reading and Discussion with Jason Prokowiew and Sara Alterman takes place on Sat, 25 Jul, 2026 at 01:00 pm to Sat, 25 Jul, 2026 at 03:00 pm at Barnes & Noble, 25 Hazard Avenue, Enfield, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing War Boys Reading and Discussion with Jason Prokowiew and Sara Alterman? - **A:** War Boys Reading and Discussion with Jason Prokowiew and Sara Alterman is organized by B&N Enfield. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "War Boys Reading and Discussion with Jason Prokowiew and Sara Alterman", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events9/banners/9791d29982c04a277bd3b72673b3f97fe70edc5bc47e497fcad03be92aad5f3e-rimg-w1200-h600-dc131313-gmir.jpg?v=1784090046", "startDate": "2026-07-25", "endDate": "2026-07-25", "url": "https://allevents.in/enfield/war-boys-reading-and-discussion-with-jason-prokowiew-and-sara-alterman/100001993752404111", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Barnes & Noble", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "25 Hazard Avenue", "postalCode": "06082", "addressLocality": "Enfield", "addressRegion": "CT", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "41.9912581", "longitude": "-72.57966139999999" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Join us for a discussion with the author of gripping and timely memoir War Boys, winner of the 2025 Aurora Polaris Award.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-09-05", "availabilityEnds": "2026-07-25", "validFrom": "2026-09-05", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/enfield/war-boys-reading-and-discussion-with-jason-prokowiew-and-sara-alterman/100001993752404111" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-09-05", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-09-05", "url": "https://allevents.in/enfield/war-boys-reading-and-discussion-with-jason-prokowiew-and-sara-alterman/100001993752404111", "price": 0, "name": "Seat Reservation" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-09-05", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-09-05", "url": "https://allevents.in/enfield/war-boys-reading-and-discussion-with-jason-prokowiew-and-sara-alterman/100001993752404111", "price": 0, "name": "Standing Room Only" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "B&N Enfield", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/bandn-enfield/27633870", "description": "Follow us on Instagram @bnenfield" } ] } ] ```