Summary: Born in Hungary, Kati Marton has combined a career as a reporter and writer with human rights advocacy. She presents her latest book, the critically acclaimed memoir Enemies of the People: My Family’s Journey to America, to the CLSC on July 15. Enemies of the People is the result of Marton’s quest to discover who her journalist parents really were — and how they survived the Nazis in Budapest and imprisonment by the Soviets during the Cold War. In a conversation with Sherra Babcock, director of Education, Kati explores why her Hungarian friends were uniformly opposed to this book saying “you are opening a Pandora’s box...you risk forever altering your image of your parents.” She relays that the past is not so mysterious to her anymore even though there were risks taken with her as a child that affected her differently than her two siblings. She answers the central question of whether or not she found closure in the research and writing process and explains how “in researching this book I really learned about the best in human beings, and the worst.”
