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DESCRIPTION:Reading and discussion with Omar El Akkad, author of What Strange 
 Paradise\n\n(the author will appear by zoom for an audience in our 
 store)\n\nAbout the novel:\n\nMore bodies have washed up on the shores of a 
 small island. Another overfilled, ill-equipped, dilapidated ship has sunk 
 under the weight of its too many passengers: Syrians, Ethiopians, 
 Egyptians, Lebanese, Palestinians, all of them desperate to escape 
 untenable lives back in their homelands. But miraculously, someone has 
 survived the passage: nine-year-old Amir, a Syrian boy who is soon rescued 
 by Vänna. Vänna is a teenage girl, who, despite being native to the 
 island, experiences her own sense of homelessness in a place and among 
 people she has come to disdain. And though Vänna and Amir are complete 
 strangers, though they don’t speak a common language, Vänna is 
 determined to do whatever it takes to save the boy.\n\n***\n“What Strange 
 Paradise is by turns tender and brutal in its truths. It is tremendously 
 written, propulsive as it is expansive as it is granular in its 
 specificities. Omar El Akkad writes with such emotional precision, power, 
 and grace. Here we get the wondrousness of children set in sharp relief 
 against a backdrop of the all too common dehumanization then dismissal of 
 refugees everywhere. The book devastates and uplifts, somehow, and we are 
 not left with hope—that isn’t the point—but asked to witness, to see 
 what is here, with clarity, and with fullness of heart.”\n—Tommy 
 Orange, author of There There\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/09/26/18852236.php
SUMMARY:Reading & Discussion with Omar El Akkad, author of What Strange Paradise
LOCATION:Revolution Books\n2444 Durant Avenue\nBerkeley
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/09/26/18852236.php
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