Author Benjamin Hoffmann visits Cleveland to discuss his novel, Sentinel Island.

Benjamin Hoffmann, author of novels and essays published in France and the United States.

Benjamin Hoffmann is an Associate Professor of French at The Ohio State University and the Director of the Center of Excellence and the Jules Verne Writing Residency at OSU.

Swept up in a grand adventure, Sentinel Island is the story of people in far-flung places, friendship, class relations, contemporary America, the gradual unraveling of an interracial marriage, and the story of globalization and those who attempt to escape it.

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