{"product_id":"thirty-names-of-night","title":"Thirty Names of Night","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Zeyn Joukhadar\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWinner of the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWinner of the ALA Stonewall Book Award—Barbara Gittings Literature Award\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNamed Best Book of the Year by\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBustle\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNamed Most Anticipated Book of the Year by\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eHuffPost\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom the award-winning author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Map of Salt and Stars\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, a new novel about three generations of Syrian Americans haunted by a mysterious species of bird and the truths they carry close to their hearts—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ea\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e“vivid exploration of loss, art, queer and trans communities, and the persistence of history. Often tender, always engrossing,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Thirty Names of Night\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a feat” (R.O. Kwon, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Incendiaries\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFive 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. 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, but he’s been struggling ever since his mother’s ghost began visiting him each evening.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne 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 birds. She 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 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 claim a new name: Nadir, an Arabic name meaning \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003erare\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs unprecedented numbers of birds are mysteriously drawn to the New York City skies, Nadir enlists the help of his family and friends to unravel what happened to Laila Z and the rare bird his mother died trying to save. Following his mother’s ghost, he uncovers the silences kept in the name of survival by his own community, his own family, and within himself, and discovers the family that was there all along.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeaturing Zeyn Joukhadar’s signature “folkloric, lyrical, and emotionally intense...gorgeous and alive” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, starred review) storytelling, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Thirty Names of Night\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a “stunning…vivid, visceral, and urgent” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, starred review) exploration of loss, memory, migration, and identity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Washington Square Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43090075484221,"sku":null,"price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2220\/7891\/files\/1_17687a39-3376-4f5d-8fdc-4fa5568e247c.jpg?v=1775599444","url":"https:\/\/tia-chuchas.myshopify.com\/products\/thirty-names-of-night","provider":"Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural \u0026 Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}