Virtual: Author talk with Zeyn Joukhadar

The author of the "vivid and urgent...important and timely" (The NYT Book Review) award-winning The Map of Salt and Stars returns with the remarkably moving and lyrical novel The Thirty Names of Night. The novel follows the path of three generations of Syrian Americans who are linked by the truths they carry close to their hearts.

Zeyn Joukhadar is the author of The Map of Salt and Stars and The Thirty Names of Night. He is a member of the Radius of Arab American Writers (RAWI) and of American Mensa. Joukhadar's writing has appeared in Salon, the Paris Review, the Kenyon Review, and elsewhere and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net. The Map of Salt and Stars was a 2018 Middle East Book Award winner in Youth Literature and a 2018 Goodreads Choice Award Finalist in Historical Fiction and was shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize. He has been an artist in residence at the Montalvo Arts Center, the Fes Medina Project, Beit al-Atlas, and the Arab American National Museum.