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SUMMARY:Addictive Books at Union - “The Skin and Its Girl” by Sarah Cy
 pher
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DTSTAMP:20260426T185000Z
DTSTART:20260516T150000Z
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LOCATION:Union, 3705 Cedar Springs Rd, Dallas, TX 75219, United States
ROOM: Addictive Books at Union - “The Skin and Its Girl” by Sarah Cyph
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DESCRIPTION:Sip your favorite brew as Addictive Books explores captivating
  stories, shares diverse perspectives, and creates a haven for bookworms o
 nce a month on Saturday at Union Coffee in Oak Lawn. This month's re
 ad: “The Skin and Its Girl” by Sarah Cypher"A young, queer Pales
 tinian American woman pieces together her great aunt’s secrets in this s
 weeping debut, a family saga confronting questions of sexual identity, exi
 le, and lineage.In a Pacific Northwest hospital far from the Rummani famil
 y’s ancestral home in Palestine, the heart of a stillborn baby begins to
  beat and her skin turns a vibrant, permanent cobalt blue. On the same day
 , the Rummanis’ centuries-old soap factory in Nablus is destroyed in an 
 air strike. The family matriarch and keeper of all Rummani lore, Aunt Nuha
 , believes that the blue girl embodies their sacred history, harkening to 
 a time when the Rummanis were among the wealthiest soap-makers and their b
 lue soap was a symbol of a legendary love.Decades later, Betty returns to 
 her Aunt Nuha’s gravestone, faced with a difficult decision: Should she 
 stay in the only country she’s every known or should she follow her hear
 t for the woman she loves, perpetuating her family’s cycle of exile? Bet
 ty finds her answer in partially translated notebooks that reveal her aunt
 ’s complex life and struggle with her own sexuality, which Nuha hid to h
 elp the family emigrate to the U.S. But as Betty soon discovers, her aunt 
 hid much more than that.The Skin and Its Girl is a searing, poetic tale ab
 out desire and identity and a provocative exploration of how we let storie
 s divide, unite, and define us—and even wield the power to restore a bro
 ken family. Sarah Cypher is that rare debut novelist who writes with the m
 astery and flair of a seasoned storyteller." Get it via the Dallas P
 ublic Library catalog at the following link:https://catalog.dallaslibrary.
 org/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=33.1033.0.0.6&pos=25&cn=3357965
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