The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar

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Meetings will be completely remote, via Zoom: Thursdays 12:30-1:20 beginning 3/30.

We strive to be an actively anti-racist space and spend the first session crafting and reviewing community agreements.

Students, Faculty, and Staff are welcome to join.

Interacting with narratives that reflect different experiences has provided opportunities for dialogue with peers about both shared and disparate experiences. What is Real Lit?īuild community, reduce isolation and enhance campus education by joining a peer-based book club! The UW Tacoma Library, in collaboration with the Center for Equity and Inclusion, is pleased to announce that its award-winning social justice book club, Real Lit, will once again meet remotely during Spring Quarter 2023! The goals of Real Lit have always been to create greater awareness and discussion of the experiences that are being had by our students, staff, and community members. As Nour’s family decides to take the risk, their journey becomes more and more dangerous, until they face a choice that could mean the family will be separated forever.” ( Publisher’s description). When a shell destroys Nour’s house and almost takes her life, she and her family are forced to choose: stay and risk more violence or flee across seven countries of the Middle East and North Africa in search of safety-along the very route Rawiya and her mapmaker took eight hundred years before in their quest to chart the world. In order to keep her father’s spirit alive as she adjusts to her new home, Nour tells herself their favorite story-the tale of Rawiya, a twelfth-century girl who disguised herself as a boy in order to apprentice herself to a famous mapmaker.īut the Syria Nour’s parents knew is changing, and it isn’t long before the war reaches their quiet Homs neighborhood. Nour has just lost her father to cancer, and her mother moves Nour and her sisters from New York City back to Syria to be closer to their family. “This “beguiling” ( Seattle Times) and stunning novel begins in the summer of 2011. To register for Spring Quarter 2023: Sign Up Here ! Join us Spring Quarter 2023 for our 17th Real Lit read - The Map of Salt and Stars, by Zeyn Joukhadar!

The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar