Bermondsey Book Launch - DEAR SONDOS

Wars, genocides and tropes aim to erase and separate. Not for Davie, a Jewish girl from New York, and Sondos, a Palestinian poet in Gaza.

When the two start exchanging messages and then emails following Davie's enchantment with Sondos's poetry collection received as a thank you for Davie's support, the two conjure a surprising friendship learning about each other's lives, and realising just how close they are despite their circumstances.

Within these two polar yet concurrent realities flicker uniting emotions, personality, the power of empathy and listening, hopes and dreams in impossible times and memories as if already buried by reality yet being something to still aspire towards. A painful parallel of each author’s respective experience of erasure permeates tenderly. As these two authors get to know each other, so too do we join their embrace. Their unlikely connection transcends borders, politics, religion and nationalities with their most powerful weapon: humanity.

And a love of donuts.

We'll be beaming in the authors from New York and Gaza (internet permitting) to talk to you about this book and take your questions, with their publisher attending in person to talk about how independent publishing is bring new and necessary voices like these to be heard in today's world.

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