Book Launch: The Slightest Green: A Novel by Sahar Mustafah

We are thrilled 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 conversation by Faisal Mohyuddin.

A moving multigenerational novel by the celebrated Palestinian American author of The Beauty of Your Face
In the middle of dinner one evening, Intisar Jaber receives a phone call that will upend her quiet life in Chicago: her father is dying and she must go 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 mother to join the resistance.
After a fateful mission, Hafez was thrown into the notorious Gahana Pr*son to serve a life sentence—permanently removed from her life. As soon as Intisar arrives in his village of Bayt al-Hawa, she discovers what it means to be a stranger in her ancestral land, the inheritance of loss, and the high price of freedom.
Meanwhile, 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 between them before it’s too late?
Powerfully etched in Sahar Mustafah’s honest and lyrical prose, The Slightest Green explores the place—and people—we call home and how far we will go to reach them.

Sahar Mustafah’s debut novel The Beauty of Your Face was named a 2020 Notable Book and 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 outside of Chicago.

Faisal Mohyuddin is the author of Elsewhere: An Elegy (Next 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 English in suburban Chicago and creative writing at Northwestern University's School of Professional Studies. He is also a visual artist.

Accessibility: This event is hosted at the bookstore, which is a wheelchair accessible space. Masks are required. Seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis. To request ASL interpretation for this event, please email [email protected] by no later than 14 days before the event. For other access needs please email .

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