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SUMMARY:Omar El Akkad: What Strange Paradise
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DESCRIPTION:Join Omar El Akkad as he discusses New Tecumseth Public Librar
 y's Simcoe Reads pick\, What Strange Paradise..\nhttps://barrielibrary.lib
 net.info/event/6850667
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p><strong>Join\, Get Inspired\, and Learn To
 gether @ BPL:&nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<p><b>Join:&nbsp\;</b><a href="https://
 ntpl.ca/events/simcoe-reads-2021-michael-christie-author-talk/%20"><strong
 ><span style="color: #0000ff\;">Please Register with New Tecumseth Public 
 Library</span></strong></a></p>\n<p><strong>About Omar El Akkad</strong></
 p>\n<p>Omar El Akkad is an author and journalist. He was born in Egypt\, g
 rew up in Qatar\, moved to Canada as a teenager and now lives in the Unite
 d States. His fiction and non-fiction writing has appeared in The New York
  Times\, The Guardian\, Le Monde\, Guernica\, GQ and many other newspapers
  and magazines. His debut novel\, American War\, is an award winning\, int
 ernational bestseller and has been translated into thirteen languages. Wha
 t Strange Paradise is also a multi-award winning novel\, including winner 
 of the 2021 Giller Prize.</p>\n<p><strong>About Simcoe Reads:&nbsp\;</stro
 ng><strong></strong></p>\n<p>7 Libraries. 7 Books. 1 Winner. Barrie Public
  Library has joined with 6 other libraries (Bradford West Gwillimbury\, Es
 sa\, Innisfil\, Midland\, New Tecumseth\, and Ramara) to offer author visi
 ts all summer long as we prepare for this cover to cover competition.</p>\
 n<p><strong>About What Strange Paradise</strong></p>\n<p>What Strange Para
 dise is the story of two children finding their way through a hostile worl
 d. But it is also a story of empathy and indifference\, of hope and despai
 r&mdash\;and about the way each of those things can blind us to reality.</
 p>\nhttps://barrielibrary.libnet.info/event/6850667
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