Book Discussion: What I Know About You

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Over the next four weeks, read What I Know About You by Eric Chacour, then meet with others to share thoughts and impressions in a librarian-led discussion.

"In a tight-knit Levantine Christian family in 1960s Cairo, Tarek's entire life is written in advance. He'll be a doctor like his father, marry, and have children. Under the watchful eye of the family's strong women, he starts to do just that - until a patient's son, Ali, enters his life and turns it upside down. The two men's unsayable relationship sparks a series of events as dramatic as the Six-Day War and assassination of President Anwar Sadat playing out in the background. The turn of the millennium finds Tarek living as a doctor in Montreal. Someone is writing about him and to him, piecing together a past he wants only to forget. "

-Good Reads

A limited number of print copies are available; visit the service desk at your local BPL location to pick one up.