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Lunch and Learn: Margaret McMullan on "Where the Angels Lived"

Co-presented with the Prince George's County Office of Human Rights

This fall, grab your favorite lunch at noon and tune in to virtual conversations with the Prince George’s County Office of Human Rights and the Prince George’s County Memorial Library System on topics from how racism is making us sick to human trafficking awareness to increasing equity and opportunity in the sciences. Let’s learn together!

Lunch and Learn returns with special guest Margaret McMullan author of "Where the Angels Lived: One Family's Story of Exile, Loss, and Return," in conversation with the Prince George's County Office of Human Rights and the Prince George's County Memorial Library System.

"The moment she discovers the existence of Richard, a long-lost relative, at Israel's Holocaust Museum, Margaret McMullan begins an unexpected journey of revelation and connectivity as she tirelessly researches the history of her ancestors, the Engel de Jánosis. Propelled by a Fulbright cultural exchange that sends her to teach at a Hungarian University, Margaret, her husband and teenage son all eagerly travel to Pécs, the land of her mother's Jewish lineage. After reaching Pécs, a Hungarian town both small and primarily Christian, Margaret realizes right then and there how difficult her mission is going to be. Heart-wrenching, passionate and insightful, "Where the Angels Lived" by Margaret McMullan beautifully documents the relentless determination of a woman picking up the pieces of her family's fragmented history throughout the Hungarian Holocaust." -provided by the publisher.   

About Margaret McMullan

Margaret McMullan is the author of nine award-winning books including In My Mother’s House and How I Found the Strong. Her essays have appeared in The Washington Post, The Hill, The Bulwark, USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Herald, The Morning Consult, The Morning Edition, The Huffington Post, National Geographic, The Sun, and Kveller, among others. She received an NEA Fellowship and a Fulbright in Hungary to research her memoir, Where the Angels Lived. She writes full time in Pass Christian, Mississippi.