Omar El Akkad

27 JULY 2021 — tuesday

City Lights Books presents best-selling novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad, American War, reading from his new novel, What Strange Paradise, a deeply touching story of two children washed ashore on an island after the refugee ship they were on sank, and what they must do to protect each other and survive, online, free, 6:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.citylights.com/bookstore/?fa=books_events)