Join JWI YWIN on our summer reading journey! On August 10th at 8pmET/7pmCT/5pmPT hear from the incredible author Hanna Halperin, author of Something Wild. Something Wild is “a searing novel about the love and contradictions of sisterhood, the intoxicating desires of adolescence, and the traumas that trap mothers and daughters in cycles of violence.”

Hanna Halperin is the author of Something Wild, winner of the 2021 Edward Lewis Wallant Award, finalist for the 2021 National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction, and longlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Her stories have been published in The Kenyon Review, n+1, New Ohio Review, and Joyland. She teaches fiction workshops at GrubStreet in Boston and works as a domestic violence counselor. Her next novel I Could Live Here Forever is forthcoming from Viking Spring 2023 .