Baltimore’s April Book Club

Baltimore’s April Book Club

NOTE:

  • We ask that everyone attending has been vaccinated & boosted for Covid for everyone’s safety.
  • We meet over dinner and drinks in Mt. Washington Tavern’s Pimlico Dining Room upstairs, and we get separate checks.
  • The Clayworks parking lot behind the restaurant is free after 6 PM. (Please don’t park in the Light Rail lot because they sometimes give tickets.)

 

Sparks Like Starsby Nadia Hashimi

Kabul, 1978: The daughter of a prominent family, Sitara Zamani lives a privileged life in Afghanistan’s thriving cosmopolitan capital. The 1970s are a time of remarkable promise under the leadership of people like Sardar Daoud, Afghanistan’s progressive president, and Sitara’s beloved father, his right-hand man. But the ten-year-old Sitara’s world is shattered when communists stage a coup, assassinating the president and Sitara’s entire family. Only she survives.

Smuggled out of the palace by a guard named Shair, Sitara finds her way to the home of a female American diplomat, who adopts her and raises her in America. In her new country, Sitara takes on a new name—Aryana Shepherd—and throws herself into her studies, eventually becoming a renowned surgeon.
New York, 2008: Thirty years after that fatal night in Kabul, Aryana’s world is rocked again when an elderly patient appears in her examination room—a man she never expected to see again. It is Shair, the soldier who saved her, yet may have murdered her entire family. Seeing him awakens Aryana’s fury and desire for answers—and, perhaps, revenge.

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Date

Apr 24 2023
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Time

April 24th at 7 PM
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Mt. Washington Tavern

Location

Mt. Washington Tavern
Mt. Washington Tavern, 5700 Newbury St., Baltimore, MD 21209
Category

Organizer

Hillary Strilko

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