09/20/2021In Fabio Geda's internationally acclaimed 2010 novel, "In the Sea There are Crocodiles," the author converses with his character/subject, Enaiatollah Akbari, and asks him how he chose his new home. Enaiatollah tells him, "You recognize it because you don't feel like leaving." Akbari and Geda appeared via Zoom in Franklin & Marshall College's Lisa Bonchek Adams Auditorium. They discussed Akbari's four-year odyssey that took him from Afghanistan, through four countries and across a sea, to Italy, where he settled.Peter DurantineHistoryItalian and Italian StudiesJudaic StudiesWomen's Gender and Sexuality Studies