New Yorker cartoonist Navied Mahdavian will share and discuss his creative work, especially his debut graphic novel This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America (Princeton Architectural Press, 2023). In 2016, Mahdavian, who is Iranian-American, and his wife decided to leave their liberal enclave in the San Francisco Bay area and develop a plot of land in (very) conservative rural Idaho. This funny, musing, and subtle book explores themes of identity, belonging, environment, and the meaning of the “Millennial Dream.”

A question-and-answer session will follow.

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Sponsored by the Self and Story program