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READING GROUP
September 2nd, 6-7.30pm
Hathern Library
I Will Greet the Sun Again, by Khashayar J. Khabushani
Three young brothers leave Los Angeles in the dead of night for Iran, taken by their father from their mother to a country and an ancestral home they barely recognize. They return to the Valley months later, spit back into American life and changed in inexorable ways. Under the dazzling light of the California sun, our protagonist, the youngest brother, begins to piece together a childhood shattered by his father's violence, a queer adolescence marked by a shy, secret love affair with a boy he meets on the basketball court, and his ever-changing status as a Muslim in America at the turn of the new millennium.
A brutally intimate reckoning with coming of age as a Muslim after 9/11, the confusion of navigating conflicting worlds, and the burning desire to belong. A beautiful, lyrical delve into identity, familial betrayal, and the lasting effects of childhood trauma. Khabushani renders American boyhood in a viscerally and clear-eyed manner, as he transports us from LA's basketball courts and housing complexes to the bazaars and highways of Iran.
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Hathern Library, 21 Green Hill, Loughborough, LE12 5LF, United Kingdom
