Alaa Al-Barkawi - In the Country I Love
About this Event
The Book Box is proud to present Alaa Al-Barkawi in conversation with Tesia Tsai, as she discusses her debut novel, In The Country I Love. The authors will discuss the book, do a Q&A with the audience and sign books at this event. Admission is FREE, but RSVP is required.
About this event:
- Doors open at 6:30 PM, author discussion begins at 7:00 PM.
- A limited number of books will be available for purchase at the event, however the only way to guarentee your copy of either book is by purchasing them with your ticket.
- Tickets are free, however RSVP is required to attend the event.
- Both authors will be participating in the signing line.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Two Iraqi American best friends—a struggling teen father and the community's golden boy—confront dark truths about their families in the wake of a devastating crime in this heartrending YA debut.
As a seventeen-year-old single dad and a soon-to-be high school drop-out, Yassir Al-Azzawi's lapsed Shia faith is just another thing convincing his parents he's a failure. One more mistake, and they'll send him back to their homeland, a war-torn Iraq.
Khaled Al-Hakim is perfect on paper: devout in his faith, a straight-A student, and captain of the debate team. But beneath the surface, Khaled is no saint either, and his worst sin yet is ignoring his parents’ command to stay away from Yassir.
When their secret friendship is exposed, the consequences set off a series of events that cause family secrets from both sides to come to light, and neither Yassir nor Khaled are prepared to learn the stains that taint their family names.
Told through multiple POVs across time, this authentic exploration of the Shia Muslim experience in the U.S. seamlessly combines classic YA themes of identity, coming-of-age, and relationships with timely social themes of racism, Islamophobia, and justice. This compelling, contemporary debut is perfect for fans of Sabaa Tahir’s All My Rage and Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief.
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