Ava Homa, Daughters of Smoke and Fire: A Novel. Overlook Press, 2020. Daughters of Smoke and Fire was one of the first novels written in English by a Kurdish woman.

The Smell of Wet Bricks by Chiya Parvizpur (Transnational Press London, 2024). The Book Club discussed this novel on September 3. The author was present for our discussion. The author,

Hiner Saleem, My Father’s Rifle: A Childhood in Kurdistan. Translated by Catherine Temerson. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004. Originally published in French as Le Fusil de mon père.

Ebru Ojen, Lojman, translated from Turkish by Aron Aji and Selin Gökcesu. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2023. The Kurdish Book Club discussed Lojman on June 4, 2024. The co-translator

“Whispering Walls” by Choman Hardi Choman Hardi, Whispering Walls (Afsana Press, 2023). In the tense weeks leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, three siblings—two in London, one in