Fee: Free.
Registration: This discussion takes place via Zoom; advance registration required. Click here to register. Click here to see all individual dates.
The Lynden/HOME Refugee Steering Committee book discussion group, moderated by Lynden’s Kim Khaira, is for those interested in firsthand accounts of displacement. We consider works of non-fiction and fiction, including autobiographical and semi-autobiographical works, by writers who have faced or are facing forced displacement as refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants. Where stories of persecution, historical trauma, and loss of livelihood are effortlessly conveyed by storytellers, journalists, and humanitarians who search out or stumble upon the lives of refugees, we seek out the words of those to whom these stories belong: the narrators who are the closest to their own stories, and the stories of their people, friends, family and, of course, refugees. Newcomers always welcome!
Book Sessions
August 2026-October 2026: Blending personal storytelling and investigative journalism, journey with DACA recipient Ecuadorian-American Karla Cornejo Villavicencio as she travels throughout North America uncovering and reflecting on stories of her fellow undocumented immigrants in The Undocumented Americans.
November 2026-February 2027: In Every Exit Brings You Home, British-born novelist Naeem Murr of Palestinian and Irish descent, covers a myriad of issues from gender identity to immigration through the bittersweet portrayal of Jamal “Jack” Shaban, a Gazan exile, as he tries to heal his community in Chicago.
