HOME Book Discussion Group: Radiance of Tomorrow by Ismael Beah

4 sessions:
May 16, 2024 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm
June 13, 2024 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm
July 18, 2024 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm
August 15, 2024 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Fee: Free.
Registration: This discussion takes place via Zoom; advance registration required. Click here to register.

The Lynden/HOME Refugee Steering Committee book discussion group, moderated by Lynden’s Kim Khaira, is for those interested in firsthand accounts of displacement. We consider works of non-fiction and fiction, including autobiographical and semi-autobiographical works, by writers who have faced or are facing forced displacement as refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants. Where stories of persecution, historical trauma, and loss of livelihood are effortlessly conveyed by storytellers, journalists, and humanitarians who search out or stumble upon the lives of refugees, we seek out the words of those to whom these stories belong: the narrators who are the closest to their own stories, and the stories of their people, friends, family and, of course, refugees. Newcomers always welcome!

As part of our HOME work at Lynden, we are making the book available without charge to book discussion group participants. If you would like us to purchase a copy of the book for you, please indicate this when completing the registration form. We will contact you when the book is available and you will be able to pick it up at the Lynden Sculpture Garden, 2145 West Brown Deer Road, Milwaukee, WI 53217. If a digital or audiobook is preferred, please contact kkhaira@lyndensculpturegarden.org for more details.

PREVIOUS READINGS
Dina Nayeri's The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You January-February, 2021
Kao Kalia Yang's Somewhere in the Unknown World: A Collective Refugee Memoir March-May, 2021
Emmanuel Mbolela's Refugee: A Memoir June-August, 2021
The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives, Edited by Viet Thanh Nguyen, September-December, 2021
Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Admiring Silence January- April, 2022
Homeira Qaderi’s Dancing in the Mosque May-August, 2022
Sonya Bilocerkowycz’s On Our Way Home from the Revolution: Reflections on Ukraine September-December, 2022
Reyna Grande’s The Distance Between Us January-May, 2023
Saeed Teebi’s Her First Palestinian June-September 2023
Beth Nguyen’s Owner of a Lonely Heart October-December 2023
Behrouz Boochani's No Friend but the Mountains January-April 2024