Feminist Book Club: May 2026
For May’s 📚💖Feminist Book Club💖📚, we’re reading The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders, by Sarah Aziza.
Distinguished with several accolades – longlisted for the Palestine Book Awards, named a Best New Book by the San Francisco Chronicle and Elle, and named a Best Book of the Year by Vulture – it is a book that goes far beyond the constraints of traditional memoir.
From the author:
Published in April 2025, The Hollow Half is a genre-bending, multi-generational memoir which weaves the lives of three Palestinians from Gaza, to the Midwest, to New York City, and beyond, probing themes of diaspora, erasure, mental health, and resilience.
Alexander Chee has called the book “astonishing. . . a blazing, hard-won triumph,” while Hala Alyan writes, “Through stunning, transformative prose, Aziza writes both herself—and the reader—towards liberation.”
🗓 Wednesday, May 20
🕕 6pm
📍Poinciana Paper Press, 12 Parkgate Road.
“In breathtaking prose, Palestinian American journalist Sarah Aziza confronts the looming specter of death in various forms. She writes movingly about recovering from an eating disorder that nearly killed her and delves into her family’s history and what it means to be the descendant of refugees from Gaza.” —Hannah Bae, San Francisco Chronicle
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