Tatiana Țîbuleac: "The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes" North American Tour

The award-winning Moldovan-Romanian author Tatiana Țîbuleac and translator Monica Cure bring the English-language edition of "The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes" to audiences across the United States in a major literary tour organized by RCI New York and Deep Vellum.

About The Event

While already celebrated across Europe as one of the most powerful literary voices of her generation, Tatiana Țîbuleac now arrives before the American public with the English-language publication of The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes, released by Deep Vellum in Monica Cure’s remarkable translation. A devastating and deeply lyrical novel about memory, grief, resentment, and reconciliation, the book has established Țîbuleac as one of the most compelling contemporary writers emerging from Eastern Europe today.

Organized by RCI New York in partnership with Deep Vellum, the North American tour will bring Tatiana Țîbuleac to Dallas, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington D.C., and New York for a series of public conversations, readings, and book signings alongside translator Monica Cure and distinguished guests from the American literary scene. From independent bookstores to one of the country’s leading literary festivals, the tour aims to introduce American audiences to a singular literary voice whose work has already resonated with readers in more than seventeen languages.

A tour organized by RCI New York in partnership with Deep Vellum, with the support of The Wild Detectives, Bay Area Book Festival, Madison Street Books, Lost City Books, and Rizzoli Bookstore.

PROGRAM

Dallas, The Wild Detectives – Tatiana Țîbuleac in conversation with Monica Cure, moderated by Will Evans, May 28, 7 PM / RSVP

San Francisco, Bay Area Book Festival – Tatiana Țîbuleac in conversation with Rita Bullwinkel, May 31, 1:30 PM / RSVP

Chicago, Madison Street Books – Tatiana Țîbuleac in conversation with Monica Cure, moderated by Ali Kinsella, June 1, 7 PM / RSVP

Washington D.C., Lost City Books – Tatiana Țîbuleac and Monica Cure in conversation with Ena Selimović, June 3, 7 PM / RSVP

New York, Rizzoli Bookstore – Tatiana Țîbuleac  in conversation with Monica Cure, moderated by Raluca Albu, June 4, 6 PM / RSVP

Tatiana Țîbuleac is the award-winning Moldovan-Romanian author of The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes and The Glass Garden. She was born in Chișinǎu, Moldova, where she began her career as a journalist, working in print media and as a reporter and news anchor for PRO TV Chișinǎu, Moldova’s leading independent TV station. She also worked in Moldova for UNICEF before leaving for Paris, where she now lives. Her debut as a writer came in 2014 with a collection of short stories, followed by two novels that received multiple awards, including the 2019 European Union Prize for Literature for The Glass Garden. Her books have been translated into 17 languages.