with Stefanie Schaefer and Oksana Marafioti

Bulawayo’s “We Need New Names” (2013), a novel about a young girl who

leaves behind her shantytown childhood to pursue her goals in America.

The novel meditates on home, trauma, and childhood in a globalized

world—and Stefanie Schäfer’s conversation partner is Oksana Marafioti,

US-American writer of Armenian and Russian Romani descent and the author

of “American Gypsy: A Memoir” (2012).