The Thirty Names of Night

A Novel

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Beschreibung

<b>Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2020 by <i>The Millions </i>and <i>Electric Literature</i></b><br> <b>Named a Best Book of Fall by <i>USA TODAY </i>and <i>PopSugar</i></b><br> <br><b>The author of the "vivid and urgent...important and timely" (<i>The New York Times Book</i> <i>Review</i>) debut <i>The Map of Salt and Stars</i> returns with this remarkably moving and lyrical novel following three generations of Syrian Americans who are linked by a mysterious species of bird and the truths they carry close to their hearts.</b><br><br>Five years after a suspicious fire killed his ornithologist mother, a closeted Syrian American trans boy sheds his birth name and searches for a new one. He has been unable to paint since his mother's ghost has begun to visit him each evening. As his grandmother's sole caretaker, he spends his days cooped up in their apartment, avoiding his neighborhood masjid, his estranged sister, and even his best friend (who also happens to be his longtime crush). The only time he feels truly free is when he slips out at night to paint murals on buildings in the once-thriving Manhattan neighborhood known as Little Syria.<br> <br>One night, he enters the abandoned community house and finds the tattered journal of a Syrian American artist named Laila Z, who dedicated her career to painting the birds of North America. She famously and mysteriously disappeared more than sixty years before, but her journal contains proof that both his mother and Laila Z encountered the same rare bird before their deaths. In fact, Laila Z's past is intimately tied to his mother's-and his grandmother's-in ways he never could have expected. Even more surprising, Laila Z's story reveals the histories of queer and transgender people within his own community that he never knew. Realizing that he isn't and has never been alone, he has the courage to officially claim a new name: Nadir, an Arabic name meaning <i>rare</i>.<br> <br>As unprecedented numbers of birds are mysterious

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781982152864

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

21 x 155 x 230 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Verlag / Hersteller

Atria Books