This event will be presented virtually.
From Elliott Bay Book Company:
Perhaps no book release of 2020 was held more close to heart here than that of Fowzia Karimi’s profound, extraordinary book, Above Us the Milky Way (Deep Vellum). Everything about it, from its singular beauty as a book (cover, pages, type, art) to the story it weaves of a family forced to leave their homeland for a new country, literally escaping, and then the life found in the new country as the old country continues to haunt and live on in memory and story is one of astonishment, timelessness, and now, even more, timeliness. The country this family of five young sisters, their mother and father must flee is Afghanistan, 1980. The country they come to is this country. Forty years later, forms of this story are being lived again and again, not always to the ends that the family rendered here manages. This book’s testimony has particulars for Afghanistan, but also speaks to many other forced exiles the world, our country, our city know.
With Fowzia Karimi tonight will be Rikki Ducornet, artist and writer, mostly recently of the novel, Trafik, and Micheline Aharonian Marcom, author of the novel, The New American.
Links to three organizations Fowzia Karimi is recommending for aid to people in/of Afghanistan with the present urgent need: