Book Club
2026
Our next selection: “Sleeping in the Courtyard” by Holly Mason Badra
Sleeping in the Courtyard: Contemporary Kurdish Writers in Diaspora Edited by Holly Mason Badra 138 pages ISBN: 978-1-68226-273-3 (paper) Release date: June 2025 Sleeping in the Courtyard brings together historically

“The Man Who Was a Tree” by Goran Baba Ali
Goran Baba Ali, The Man Who Was a Tree: A Novel. Afsana Press, 2025. A naked young man wears only a long leaf creeping around his body. In the daytime,
“Birds in a Gale” by Ata Nahai
Ata Nahai, Birds in a Gale: A Novel. Translated by Chiya Parvizpur and Hourieh Maleki Qouzloo, with an Introduction by Kawan Mohammadpur. The Book Club discussed this novel onJune 2,

Sener Ozmen, “The Competition of Unfinished Stories”
Sener Ozmen, The Competition of Unfinished Stories. Translated by Nicholas Glastonbury. Sandorf Passage, 2025. 240 pages. At the March 7, 2026, meeting of the Kurdish Book Club, we’ll discuss The

“Lingering Faith” by Alisha Walat
On January 6, 2026, the NYKCC’s Book Club met to discuss Lingering Faith by Aisha Walat. The novel follows a Kurdish woman, Beritan, and her friends as they form a