PCB June Book Club: Disoriental
@ Pilsen Community Books
Opening Thursday, June 25th, from 7:30PM - 8:30PM
This is PCB’s longstanding general interest book discussion group. Please join us this month as we read and discuss Negar Djavadi’s Disoriental. The book club meets on Thursday, June 25th at 7.30pm via Zoom. All are welcome to attend! Email bookspilsen@gmail.com if interested.
Kimiâ Sadr fled Iran at the age of ten in the company of her mother and sisters to join her father in France. Now twenty-five and facing the future she has built for herself as well as the prospect of a new generation, Kimiâ is inundated by her own memories and the stories of her ancestors, which come to her in unstoppable, uncontainable waves. In the waiting room of a Parisian fertility clinic, generations of flamboyant Sadrs return to her, including her formidable great-grandfather Montazemolmolk, with his harem of fifty-two wives, and her parents, Darius and Sara, stalwart opponents of each regime that befalls them.
It is Kimiâ herself––punk-rock aficionado, storyteller extraordinaire, a Scheherazade of our time, and above all a modern woman divided between family traditions and her own “disorientalization”––who forms the heart of this bestselling and beloved novel.
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