Bookable Space with Sorayya Khan

Love being read to? In this episode of Bookable Space, Sorayya Khan reads We Take Our Cities with Us.About the book: Even when we leave them, our cities never leave us. After her Dutch mother’sdeath, Sorayya Khan confronts her grief by revisiting their relationship, her parents’ lives, andher own Pakistani-Dutch heritage in a multicultural memoir that unfolds over seven cities andthree continents. We Take Our Cities with Us takes us from a childhood independence forged inher grandparents’ home in Lahore; to her adolescence in Pakistan’s new capital, Islamabad; toSyracuse and Ithaca, New York, where Khan finds her footing as the mother of young, brownsons in post-9/11 America; to her birthplace, Vienna, where her parents die; and finally toAmsterdam and Maastricht, the cities of her mother’s conflicted youth. In Khan’s grippingtelling of her immigrant experience, she shows us what it is to raise children and lose parents inworlds other than your own. Drawing on family history, geopolitics, and art in this stunningstory of loss, identity, and rediscovery, Khan beautifully illuminates the complexities of ourevolving global world and its most important constant: love.  About the writer: Sorayya Khan is the author of novels, NOOR, FIVE QUEEN’SROAD, and CITY OF SPIES which received the Best International FictionBook Award, Sharjah International Book Fair, 2015. She is the daughterof a Pakistani father and a Dutch mother, was born in Europe, grew upin Pakistan, and now lives in New York with her family.Discout code: CITIES will get people 30% off the book and free shipping in the U.S. KHAN will get people 40% off the hardcover (no free shipping), or 20% off the pdf. For both codes, the purchaser needs to use them in the shopping cart—so go to the webpage for the book, add the code (must be in all caps) and hit “apply code.”  For information about Yvonne's books, events, and more vist https://www.yvonnebattlefelton.com/ or sign up to Yvonne's Substack https://yvonnebattlefelton.substack.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.