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Presented with the WOMEN'S NATIONAL BOOK ASSOCIATION in celebration of NATIONAL READING GROUP MONTH. Born into an Aramaic-speaking village in a Kurdish Jewish community in Iraq, Yona Sabar was one of 150,000 Iraqi Jews who relocated to Israel in the 1950s. He then emigrated to the U.S. to attend Yale and devote his life to preserving the heritage of the Jews of Kurdistan (an embattled region/community of its own). His writer son, Ariel Sabar, retraces his father's story, and that of their community, in his resonant, award-winning memoir, My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Family's Past (Algonquin). My Father's Paradise received this year's National Book Critics Circle Award. All are welcome this evening, with book club members especially encouraged to attend. "Sabar's family history turns out to be more than the chronicle of one man's efforts to retain something of his homeland in new surroundings. It's also a moving story about the near-death of an ancient language and the tiny flicker of life that remains in it." - Washington Post.
