This week my guest is Pauls Toutonghi, award winning author of the new novel, The Refugee Ocean, a modern epic of two refugees from 1940s Beirut and 2014 Aleppo connected across time by music and the hauntings of dreams deferred.
“The Refugee Ocean is one of those breathtaking and simultaneously heartbreaking stories that slides under one’s skin and stays… It is a story of the power of music and its ability to bring lives and hope together and to heal wounds that threaten the soul.”–The Montecito Journal
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About the Author:
Paul Toutonghi’s parents were both refugees to the United States. He has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, an Andrew W. Mellon research fellowship, a Fulbright Grant, and a residency at Hawthornden Castle. He has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, Outside Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Granta, Tin House, and other periodicals. He’s married to the novelist, Peyton Marshall. He lives in Oregon, where he teaches at Lewis and Clark College. Learn more: https://paulstoutonghi.com/
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