On October 28th, Israeli-Canadian author Ayelet Tsabari visited campus as part of her book tour for her debut novel, Songs for the Brokenhearted (2024). The event was supported by the Einhorn Fund, the Israel Studies Project, and the Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity. The novel is an intergenerational story of a Yemeni Jewish family in Israel and addresses questions of identity, love, grief, trauma, and racial politics. The talk began with introductory remarks by Tsabari, where she explained that the novel is the product of ten years of independent research on Yemeni Jews, specifically Yemeni women's songs, which are a form of oral poetry sung in Arabic that express personal matters such as love, sexuality, joy, and sorrow. Tsabari explained that in writing this novel, she set out to give Yemeni Jews a place in literature and to broaden understanding of Jewish and Israeli identities. Next, Tsabari read a few passages from the novel before a Q&A session moderated by Brett Ashley Kaplan, where she answered questions pertaining to the challenges of translating the novel into Hebrew, specific writing decisions and character insights, solidarity within the Mizrahi community, and continued problems of racism in Israel.