Rochester Reads turns its sights to Gaza
Rochester Reads is celebrating 25 years of asking the community to read one book – and then come together to discuss it.
This year, Writers & Books has selected two titles — one being Omar El Akkad’s “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This.” El Akkad has described the book as a kind of breakup letter with the West. He writes of the devastation in Gaza and the plight of the Palestinian people. Writers & Books says the book “underscores literature’s capacity to bear witness to the lives, places, and issues that are often left in the margins.”
We talk with El Akkad and the…
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