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In partnership with the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the University of Dayton, the Dayton Metro Library will co-host

A Special 20th Anniversary Dayton Literary Peace Prize Event

In commemoration of the 80th remembrance of the dropping of the bomb on Nagasaki

Featuring Dayton Literary Peace Prize Winner Susan Southard  Nonfiction in 2016 for her book Nagasaki - Life After Nuclear War

Southard will take us on a journey through the days both leading up to and following the dropping of the bomb on Nagasaki.

Nagasaki is essential reading and relevant conversation in our ever-increasing geopolitical climate.

Southard benefits from access first and foremost to the survivors she renders with a gentle reverence and sympathy. Americans have largely avoided stories from the point of view of the surviving civilian populations of the only two atomic attacks because of our inward-gazing moral questioning and, redoubling the erasure, because Hiroshima, the first victim, tends to obscure Nagasaki.

Southard’s work illuminates an absence in our own history. Far beyond a reductionist argument about whether to use nuclear weapons, this is a profound inquiry into the extremes of human violence and what it does to both victim and victimizer

Reception at 5:30pm | Talk at 6:30pm
Complementary RSVP here:
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Read the book:

Nagasaki, by Susan Southard