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Join us for our free summer lecture series on a new night. Each Tuesday evening from May 21 to August 6 at 6pm (no lecture July 16), internationally renowned artists will present images, videos, and informal discussions about contemporary glass art.

After Italy: A Family Memoir of Arranged Marriage is the story of two marriages undone by a dowry and the fallout from that rift on three generations of a Southern Italian family. Enlisting Calabrian folklore, epigenetics, and psychology, Monardo writes from both sides of the ocean, charting her grandfathers’ immigration to Braddock, a Pittsburgh steel town; her father’s wartime as a medical student in Naples; the family’s marriages—including her own—that were tainted by an Old World curse; and an unlikely path to international adoption.