Join us for our third book discussion on Saturday, October 9, 2021. We will be discussing Susan Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water. The novel centers on the sufferings of the Baraka family, forced to leave their idyllic village of Beit Daras in 1948 for a refugee camp near Gaza’s southern shores. After that, the family scatters. Some remain in the camp, where the majority of the novel takes place, while others emigrate to the Gulf and then to the US. Born of a troubling history that continues to rage forth and claim its dead, The Blue Between Sky and Water is a novel of survival and of the vivid, powerful women who manage to enlarge and enliven the everyday. It is a novel for our time—and one that is also timeless. Bring yourself, your book, and any questions you’d like to discuss! Please note there is a small 25AED participation fee that goes directly to supporting the communal space that kindly agreed to host us. Ana Min Hunak hopes to serve as a safe space to explore our relationship with our shared, yet personal, Palestinian identity. We hope to engage in thought-provoking discussion every month surrounding a different book, as well as develop a sense of community and a means for a deeper education of our rich history and culture. Follow @anaminhunak for further info.