Blue Light Hours: A Conversation with Bruna Dantas Lobato
Blue Light Hours
Book Discussion
Thursday, March 20, 2025
5:30 – 7:30 PM
Howard Thurman Center, Room 205
808 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215
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Bruna Dantas Lobato, an award-winning translator and first-generation college graduate, will be discussing her sensitive debut novel, Blue Light Hours at the Howard Thurman Center. Join us as she shares a deeply atmospheric and wise first novel of a young Brazilian woman’s first year in America, a continent away from her lonely mother, and the relationship they build over Skype calls across borders. Expanded from a story originally published in The New Yorker, Blue Light Hours paints a powerful portrait of a mother and daughter’s experience exploring the profound sacrifices and freedoms that come with leaving a home to make a new one somewhere else.
Appetizers and light desserts will be served.
Co-sponsored by BU Center for the Humanities, BU Arts Initiative, BU Center for Latin American Studies, Department of Romance Studies, and Department of World Languages & Literatures.
Bruna Dantas Lobato is a writer and translator. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Guernica, A Public Space, and The Common. She was awarded the 2023 National Book Award in Translated Literature for The Words that Remain by Stênio Gardel. Originally from Natal, Brazil, she lives in Iowa and teaches at Grinnell College. Her debut novel, Blue Light Hours, is out now from Grove Atlantic.
Read Dantas Lobato’s interviews with The New York Times and BOMB Magazine.