{"product_id":"9781982121525","title":"The Thirty Names of Night","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWinner of the ALA Stonewall Book AwardBarbara Gittings Literature Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eNamed Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eBustle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eNamed Most Anticipated Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHuffPost\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the award-winning author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Map of Salt and Stars\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, a new novel about three generations of Syrian Americans haunted by a mysterious species of bird and the truths they carry close to their hearts\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ea\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e ';vivid exploration of loss, art, queer and trans communities, and the persistence of history. Often tender, always engrossing, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Thirty Names of Night\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e is a feat' (R.O. Kwon, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Incendiaries\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFive years after a suspicious fire killed his ornithologist mother, a closeted Syrian American trans boy sheds his birth name and searches for a new one. As his grandmother's sole caretaker, he spends his days cooped up in their apartment, avoiding his neighborhood masjid, his estranged sister, and even his best friend (who also happens to be his longtime crush). The only time he feels truly free is when he slips out at night to paint murals on buildings in the once-thriving Manhattan neighborhood known as Little Syria, but he's been struggling ever since his mother's ghost began visiting him each evening.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eOne night, he enters the abandoned community house and finds the tattered journal of a Syrian American artist named Laila Z, who dedicated her career to painting birds. She mysteriously disappeared more than sixty years before, but her journal contains proof that both his mother and Laila Z encountered the same rare bird before their deaths. In fact, Laila Z's past is intimately tied to his mother's in ways he never could have expected. Even more surprising, Laila Z's story reveals the histories of queer a","brand":"Atria Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52582547783991,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":102.88,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/3548\/7543\/files\/9781982121525-1.jpg?v=1783253299","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.my\/products\/9781982121525","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Malaysia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}