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DESCRIPTION:Award-winning author and immigration attorney Orlando Ortega-Medina 
 discusses his new novel The Fitful Sleep of Immigrants with writer and 
 performer Baruch Porras-Hernandez.\n\nOrlando Ortega-Medina returns to 
 1990s San Francisco in The Fitful Sleep of Immigrants, a unique legal 
 fiction with a dramatic, romantic twist inspired by events that forced the 
 author and his partner to emigrate from the United States because of 
 marriage inequality. \n\nAttorney Marc Mendes, the estranged son of a 
 prominent rabbi and a burned-out lawyer with addiction issues, plots his 
 exit from the big city to a more peaceful life in idyllic Napa Valley. But 
 before realizing his dream, the US government summons his Salvadoran life 
 partner Isaac Perez to immigration court, threatening him with deportation. 
 \n\nAs Marc battles to save Isaac, his world is further upended by a dark 
 and alluring client who aims to tempt him away from his messy life. Torn 
 between his commitment to Isaac and the pain-numbing escapism offered by 
 his client, Marc is forced to choose between the lesser of two evils while 
 confronting his twin demons of past addiction and guilt over the death of 
 his first lover.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/03/28/18855165.php
SUMMARY:Book Discussion: The Fitful Sleep of Immigrants
LOCATION:Fabulosa Books \n489 Castro Street San Francisco, CA 94114
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/03/28/18855165.php
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