Once a month we are joined by the Feminist Book Club at Further North, to discuss their latest reads, challenging the mind, inclusive and all are welcome.
They’ll be meeting upstairs in our cosy Chapel Allerton bar to discuss ‘Against the Loveless World’, by Susan Abulhawa.
A sweeping and lyrical novel that follows a young Palestinian refugee as she slowly becomes radicalized while searching for a better life for her family throughout the Middle East.
As Nahr sits, locked away in solitary confinement, she spends her days reflecting on the dramatic events that landed her in prison in a country she barely knows. Born in Kuwait in the 70s to Palestinian refugees, she dreamed of falling in love with the perfect man, raising children, and possibly opening her own beauty salon. Instead, the man she thinks she loves jilts her after a brief marriage, her family teeters on the brink of poverty, she’s forced to prostitute herself, and the US invasion of Iraq makes her a refugee, as her parents had been. After trekking through another temporary home in Jordan, she lands in Palestine, where she finally makes a home, falls in love, and her destiny unfolds under Israeli occupation.
Join us from 7.30pm – the Feminist Book Club is open to everyone and is completely inclusive. Drop in for free – whether you have read the book or not, and would like to join in the feminist chats!