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Texas Book Festival
Join authors Rachel Eliza Griffiths and Zaina Arafat for a discussion of their poignant memoirs about bearing the emotional scars of personal and collective loss and the arduous path of healing. In The Flower Bearers, Griffiths recounts the devastating death of her best friend as well as the harrowing attack on her husband, writer Salman Rushdie, in a lyrical narrative that highlights the beauty and pain of love and growth. In Our Arab, Arafat reflects on the Palestinian diaspora alongside her personal history and yearning for home, crafting a complex portrait of a people shaped by censorship, violence, and erasure.