American Fever & River East, River West Paperback Launch Party

Welcome to the American Fever & River East, River West Paperback Launch Party! Join us at BARZAKH• CAFÉ for a night of celebration as we introduce our latest paperback releases. Meet the authors, mingle with fellow readers, enjoy a drink! Bring friends, and please RSVP to help us plan for a crowd!

Books will be on-sale at Barzakh Café.

About American Fever

WINNER OF THE ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN AWARD FOR LITERATURE
WINNER OF THE SOUTH ASIAN BOOK AWARD USA Today Best books of August
Christian Science Monitor Ten Best Books of August
The Millions Most Anticipated Books of 2022
Harper's Bazaar Must-Read Books of August 2022
Debuts of the Season by Vogue India
Bustle Most Anticipated Books of August 2022

On a year-long exchange program in rural Oregon, a Pakistani student, sixteen-year-old Hira, must swap Kashmiri chai for volleyball practice and try to understand why everyone around her seems to dislike Obama. A skeptically witty narrator, Hira finds herself stuck between worlds. The experience is memorable for reasons both good and bad; a first kiss, new friends, racism, Islamophobia, homesickness. Along the way Hira starts to feel increasingly unwell until she begins coughing up blood, and receives a diagnosis of tuberculosis, pushing her into quarantine and turning her newly established home away from home upside down.
American Fever is a compelling and laugh-out-loud funny novel about adolescence, family, otherness, religion, the push-and-pull of home. It marks the entrance on the international literary scene of the brilliant fresh voice of Dur e Aziz Amna.

About River East, River West

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION
FINALIST FOR THE MAYA ANGELOU BOOK AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORDS' FICTION WITH A SENSE OF PLACE AWARD
LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD

Shanghai, 2007: feeling betrayed by her American mother’s engagement to their rich landlord Lu Fang, fourteen-year-old Alva begins plotting her escape. But the exclusive American School – a potential ticket out – is not what she imagined.

Qingdao, 1985: newlywed Lu Fang works as a lowly shipping clerk. Though he aspires to a bright future, he is one of many casualties of harsh political reforms. Then China opens up to foreigners and capital, and Lu Fang meets a woman who makes him question what he should settle for...

A mesmerising reversal of the east–west immigrant narrative set against China’s economic boom, River East, River West is a deeply moving exploration of race, identity and family, of capitalism’s false promise and private dreams

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

BARZAKH• CAFÉ, 147 Utica Avenue, Brooklyn, United States