with Stefanie Schaefer and Oksana Marafioti

This episode of LadyFiction discusses Zimbabwean author NoViolet

Bulawayo’s “We Need New Names” (2013), a novel about a young girl wholeaves behind her shantytown childhood to pursue her goals in America.The novel meditates on home, trauma, and childhood in a globalizedworld—and Stefanie Schäfer’s conversation partner is Oksana Marafioti,US-American writer of Armenian and Russian Romani descent and the authorof “American Gypsy: A Memoir” (2012).