Meg Berkobien and María Cristina Hall present "Goodbye, Ramona"

Meg Berkobien and María Cristina Hall present *Goodbye, Ramona*, Montserrat Roig’s sweeping novel about three generations of women in one family across more than sixty years of twentieth-century Barcelona. The event explores the lives of three women named Ramona: a grandmother yearning for romance beyond her quiet marriage, a daughter enduring her husband’s volatility, and a granddaughter coming of age amid the social changes and revolutionary possibilities of 1960s Barcelona.

The novel examines family inheritance, love, power, silence, gendered violence, the impact of Franco’s dictatorship, and the struggle to claim an independent life. Berkobien and Hall, who co-translated the book, bring literary, translation, organizing, poetry, and migration-research backgrounds to the presentation.

When: Wednesday, November 18th, 2026

Showtime: 7:00 pm

Event: Meg Berkobien and María Cristina Hall present *Goodbye, Ramona*

Description: The novel follows a grandmother, mother, and daughter as each confronts restrictive relationships, unspoken feelings, and the expectations imposed on women in her era. The youngest Ramona grows up in a Barcelona approaching social upheaval, where women are beginning to assert greater agency and challenge the patterns that shaped the generations before her.

Presenters: Meg Berkobien is a PhD, educator, organizer, and Catalan- and Spanish-language translator who works as a bookseller at Red Emma’s. María Cristina Hall is a Mexican American poet and migration researcher at Mexico’s National Autonomous University. She is the author of the bilingual poetry collection *Raw Age / La hora cruda*.

Translation work: Berkobien and Hall have co-translated *The Left Parenthesis*, *Chrysalis, Pastoral in B Minor*, and *September and the Night*. They also edited an issue of *Absinthe* featuring contemporary women’s Catalan fiction.

Venue: Red Emma’s, 3128 Greenmount Avenue, Baltimore, MD

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Venue hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 9:00 am–8:00 pm; Sunday, 10:00 am–4:00 pm