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SUMMARY:Book Launch: The Slightest Green: A Novel by Sahar Mustafah
DESCRIPTION:CHICAGO\, IL\n\nA moving multigenerational novel by the celebra
 ted Palestinian American author of The Beauty of Your Face\n\nWe are thril
 led to host an event celebrating the release of The Slightest Green\, the 
 newest novel by Sahar Mustafah. For this event\, Sahar will be joined in c
 onversation by Faisal Mohyuddin.\n\nA moving multigenerational novel by th
 e celebrated Palestinian American author of The Beauty of Your Face\n\nIn 
 the middle of dinner one evening\, Intisar Jaber receives a phone call tha
 t will upend her quiet life in Chicago: her father is dying and she must g
 o to Palestine to pay her final respects. But Intisar hasn't seen or heard
  from Hafez for nearly two decades\, ever since he abandoned her and her m
 other to join the resistance.\n\nAfter a fateful mission\, Hafez was throw
 n into the notorious Gahana Prison to serve a life sentence—permanently 
 removed from her life. As soon as Intisar arrives in his village of Bayt a
 l-Hawa\, she discovers what it means to be a stranger in her ancestral lan
 d\, the inheritance of loss\, and the high price of freedom.\n\nMeanwhile\
 , Hafez’s mother Sundus battles to save the home that she built with her
  husband from thieving hands. Will Intisar\, her estranged granddaughter\,
  help Sundus fight to reclaim it? Can they close the gaping distance betwe
 en them before it’s too late?\n\nPowerfully etched in Sahar Mustafah’s
  honest and lyrical prose\, The Slightest Green explores the place—and p
 eople—we call home and how far we will go to reach them.\n\nSahar Mustaf
 ah’s debut novel The Beauty of Your Face was named a 2020 Notable Book a
 nd Editor’s Choice by New York Times Book Review and one of Marie Claire
  Magazine’s 2020 Best Fiction by Women. Her award-winning short stories 
 have been recently featured in Prairie Schooner\, The Massachusetts Review
 \, and Redline: Chicago Horror Stories. Mustafah writes and teaches outsid
 e of Chicago.\n\nFaisal Mohyuddin is the author of Elsewhere: An Elegy (Ne
 xt Page\, 2024)\, The Displaced Children of Displaced Children (Eyewear\, 
 2018)\, and The Riddle of Longing (Backbone\, 2017)\, and his recent poems
  appear in Mizna\, Poetry\, diode\, and RHINO. He teaches high school Engl
 ish in suburban Chicago and creative writing at Northwestern University's 
 School of Professional Studies. He is also a visual artist.\n\nAccessibili
 ty: This event is hosted at the bookstore\, which is a wheelchair accessib
 le space. Masks are required. Seating is on a first-come\, first-serve bas
 is. To request ASL interpretation for this event\, please email events@wom
 enandchildrenfirst.com by no later than 14 days before the event. For othe
 r access needs please email events@womenandchildrenfirst.com.\n\nGet Ticke
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