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Book Launch: Black Wings
March 29, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
FreePlease join us for the official US release of Sehba Sarwar’s novel BLACK WINGS, which was first published in Pakistan in 2004. Revised and updated, this new edition comes courtesy of El Paso’s Veliz Books. Don’t miss your opportunity to grab a copy of the book that Liliana Valenzuela describes as “a tale of family secrets, independent women, and a period of rapid change in Pakistan and post 9/11 America.”
Also reading:
*** Mohamed Asem, the author of STRANGER IN THE PEN, “a timely real human story in the face of headlines everywhere,” according to Oregon ArtsWatch
*** Corinne Manning, the Seattle-based writer & editor whose work has appeared in Story Quarterly, The Oxford American, and been recognized as notable in Best American Essays 2016
*** Ramzy Farouki, the architectural designer, water quality researcher, former wildland firefighter, and poet & writer whose work examines the experience of cultural erasure, specifically that of the Palestinian people
FREE // ALL AGES // BOOKS AND REFRESHMENTS AVAILABLE
[see also Veliz Books’s website]