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URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/sunset-park-book-discussion-the-thi
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SUMMARY:Sunset Park Book Discussion: The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Jouk
 hadar
DESCRIPTION:"Celebrate National Arab American Heritage Month with a discuss
 ion of Zeyn Joukhadar's The Thirty Names of Night\, "a remarkably moving a
 nd lyrical novel following three generations of Syrian Americans who are l
 inked by the truths they carry close to their hearts."\n\nBeginning in ear
 ly April\, copies of The Thirty Names of Night will be available for check
 out from the front desk. Registration is required.\n\nMore on The Thirty N
 ames of Night:\n\n"From the author of the acclaimed and award-winning debu
 t The Map of Salt and Stars\, a remarkably moving and lyrical novel follow
 ing three generations of Syrian Americans who are linked by the truths the
 y carry close to their hearts. Five years after a suspicious fire killed h
 is mother\, a closeted Syrian American trans boy sheds his birth name and 
 searches for a new one. He has been unable to paint since his mother's gho
 st has begun to visit him each evening. The only time he feels truly free 
 is when he slips out at night to paint murals on buildings in the once-thr
 iving Manhattan neighborhood known as Little Syria. One night\, he finds t
 he tattered journal of a Syrian American artist named Laila Z. She famousl
 y and mysteriously disappeared more than sixty years before\, but her jour
 nal contains proof that Laila Z's past is intimately tied to his mother's-
 and his grandmother's--in ways he never could have expected. Even more sur
 prising\, Laila Z's story reveals the histories of queer and transgender p
 eople within his community that he never knew. Following his mother's ghos
 t\, he uncovers the silences kept in the name of survival by his own commu
 nity\, his own family\, and within himself\, and discovers the family that
  was there all along. The Thirty Names of Night is an imaginative and inti
 mate exploration of how we all search for and ultimately embrace who we ar
 e.""
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CATEGORIES:#arabic,Book Discussion,Book
 Talk,Books,Books/Literature,Community,culture,Lecture,Syrian-American
LOCATION:Sunset Park\, 4201 Fourth Avenue\, Brookyln\, NY\, United States
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