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The Thirty Names of Night

The Thirty Names of Night

Zeyn Joukhadar (Author)

Fiction

Edition published in 2020 in English language
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.One night, he enters the abandoned community house and finds the tattered journal of a Syrian American artist named Laila Z, who dedicated...

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