SALVATION ARMY by Abdellah TaiaTuesday, February 22
7:30pm @ Magnet
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If reading has the power to transport you to a different place, then a book club is a group adventure.
Join us on our journey to Morocco in February as we read and discuss SALVATION ARMY by Abdellah Taïa.
Grab your copy of the book club selection at A Different Light, mention Magnet and get 10% off! Then come discuss the book at Magnet (4122 18th Street) on February 22.
An “autobiographical novel” in the American avant-feminist tradition of Michelle Tea, SALVATION ARMY is a coming-of-age story that narrates Taïa’s life with complete disclosure — from a childhood bound by family order and latent (homo)sexual tensions in the poor city of Salé, through an adolescence in Tangier charged by the young writer’s attraction to his eldest brother, to his disappointing “arrival” in the Western world to study in Geneva.
Recently hailed by his native country’s press as “the first Moroccan to have the courage to publicly assert his difference," Taïa’s calmly transgressive work has “outed” him as “the only gay man” in a country whose theocratic law still codes homosexuality a crime.
SALVATION ARMY by Abdellah Taia
Tuesday, February 22
7:30pm @ Magnet
If reading has the power to transport you to a different place, then a book club is a group adventure.
Join us on our journey to Morocco in February as we read and discuss SALVATION ARMY by Abdellah Taïa.
Grab your copy of the book club selection at A Different Light, mention Magnet and get 10% off! Then come discuss the book at Magnet (4122 18th Street) on February 22.
An “autobiographical novel” in the American avant-feminist tradition of Michelle Tea, SALVATION ARMY is a coming-of-age story that narrates Taïa’s life with complete disclosure — from a childhood bound by family order and latent (homo)sexual tensions in the poor city of Salé, through an adolescence in Tangier charged by the young writer’s attraction to his eldest brother, to his disappointing “arrival” in the Western world to study in Geneva.
Recently hailed by his native country’s press as “the first Moroccan to have the courage to publicly assert his difference," Taïa’s calmly transgressive work has “outed” him as “the only gay man” in a country whose theocratic law still codes homosexuality a crime.
SALVATION ARMY by Abdellah Taia
Tuesday, February 22
7:30pm @ Magnet
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