With over 100 community members in attendance, the MGSDII hosted a Book Group Salon with Israeli author Ayelet Gundar-Goshen as she discussed her critically acclaimed new novel Waking Lions. The following day, Gundar-Goshen spoke to an audience of 75 SDSU students about writing and fine tuning her craft.

Waking Lions offers a commentary on privilege and otherness, challenging readers to confront their own blind spots and preconceptions… It is a sophisticated and darkly ambitious novel, revealing an aspect of Israeli life rarely seen in its literature. – New York Times Book Review