# Event Details - **Event Name**: Sarah Aziza launches "The Hollow Half" paperback - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 22 Apr, 2026 at 06:30 pm – Wed, 22 Apr, 2026 at 08:00 pm (-04:00) - **Event Description**: “A poetic and politically potent exploration of survival." —Publishers WeeklyAbout this EventA brush with death. An ancestral haunting. A century of family secrets. Sarah Aziza’s searing, genre-bending memoir traces three generations of diasporic Palestinians from Gaza to the Midwest to New York City—and back.Join us as we celebrate the paperback release of Sarah Aziza's critically acclaimed and award-winning debut memoir The Hollow Half. A reading, conversation, and audience Q&A will be followed by a book signing and reception. here!Can't make it to the event? Preorder at the link above to receive a signed copy for store pickup or shipping. Indicate any personalization requests in the "Instructions and comments" field during checkout.About the bookWINNER OF THE PALESTINE BOOK AWARDFinalist for the Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardsFinalist for the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ NonfictionLonglisted for the James Patterson and Bookshop.org PrizeNamed a Best Book of the Year by Elle, Vulture, BookPage, and Electric LiteratureNamed a Best New Book by San Francisco Chronicle and ElleNamed a Most Anticipated Book by Ms., Debutiful, Literary Hub, Electric Literature, The Millions, and RAWIWrite or Die Magazine, A Must Read Book“You were dead, Sarah, you were dead.” In October 2019, Sarah Aziza, daughter and granddaughter of Gazan refugees, is narrowly saved after being hospitalized for an eating disorder. The doctors revive her body, but it is no simple thing to return to the land of the living. Aziza’s crisis is a rupture that brings both her ancestral and personal past into vivid presence. The hauntings begin in the hospital cafeteria, when a mysterious incident summons the familiar voice of her deceased Palestinian grandmother.In the months following, as she responds to a series of ghostly dreams, Aziza unearths family secrets that reveal the ways her own trauma and anorexia echo generations of violent Palestinian displacement and erasure—and how her fight to recover builds on a century of defiant survival and love. As she moves towards this legacy, Aziza learns to resist the forces of colonization, denial, and patriarchy both within and outside her.Weaving timelines, languages, geographies, and genres, The Hollow Half probes the contradictions and contingencies that create “nation” and “history.” Blazing with honesty, urgency, and poetry, this stunning debut memoir is a fearless call to imagine both the self and the world anew.Praise for The Hollow Half“In breathtaking prose, Palestinian American journalist Sarah Aziza confronts the looming specter of death in various forms. She writes movingly about recovering from an eating disorder that nearly killed her and delves into her family’s history and what it means to be the descendant of refugees from Gaza.” —Hannah Bae, San Francisco Chronicle“A powerhouse of a memoir.” —Lauren Puckett-Pope, Elle“With grace and rigor, [Aziza] examines an eating disorder alongside family history.” —Keziah Weir, Vanity Fair“A remarkable achievement, formally inventive, refreshingly honest, and politically sharp.” —Isle McElroy, A Vulture Best Book of the Year“Aziza took what a memoir can do and turned it on its head. She plays with style and genre, but also introduces the characters in her past and present with such originality. One of the best memoirs I’ve ever read.” —Adam Vitcavage, Debutiful“A raw and deeply moving account of physical and mental illness and the lasting effects of political oppression on the author’s Gazan refugee family . . . Her account stands as a testament to the resilience of Palestinians.” —Library Journal (starred review)“A poetic and politically potent exploration of survival. Fans of Carmen Maria Machado and Rabih Alameddine will find much to admire.” —Publishers Weekly“The Hollow Half is a book so stunning in style, form, and sentence-level beauty, it feels stitched together with magic. Only a writer of spectacular talent can so masterfully interrogate the vast, diaphanous spectrum of belonging—from generations-deep root systems upended by monstrous injustice, to the most intimate kind of belonging, within one’s own body. Sarah Aziza is an absolutely exceptional writer, and The Hollow Half is an unforgettable debut.” —Omar El Akaad, author of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This“Excruciating, to live in a nation, a culture, a moment in which one must continuously insist upon their own humanity and the humanity of those they love. And yet, so many of history’s greatest writers—from Darwish to Morrison—have taken up this project, fractalling shards of unprecedented experience into something as vital, precious, undeniable, as life itself. Sarah Aziza sings herself into that chorus with clarity and tenderness, writing, ‘Palestine: an orientation toward a life that names, and holds open, the ruptures loving makes.’ The Hollow Half is inventive, propulsive testimony, a lush love letter to a place, a people, and the resilience of memory.” —Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!About the authorSarah Aziza (she/ هي ) is a Palestinian American writer, translator, and artist with roots in ‘Ibdis and Deir al-Balah, Gaza. She is the author of The Hollow Half, winner of the Palestine Book Award and current finalist for the Anisfield-Wolf Award and Lambda Literary Award. Sarah’s journalism, poetry, essays, and experimental nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Best American Essays, The Baffler, Harper’s Magazine, Mizna, The Intercept, The Guardian, and The Nation, among other publications. She has received fellowships from Fulbright, MacDowell, the Pulitzer Center, United States Artists, Asian American Writers Workshop, Tin House, and others. She currently lives on unceded Canarsie and Munsee Lenape land where she makes, learns and works towards liberation for Palestine and beyond. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/brooklyn/sarah-aziza-launches-the-hollow-half-paperback/100001986438366628 - **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art, Nonprofit, Workshops - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Brooklyn - **state**: NY - **country**: United States - **location**: Lofty Pigeon Books, Church Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USA - **lat**: 40.6461221 - **long**: -73.9719605 - **full address**: Lofty Pigeon Books, Church Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USA, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Sarah Aziza launches "The Hollow Half" paperback - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events6/banners/49e7f6fa76a4d83006f7d7ffb5b7ee1d3dab674820c3ee4ea289fb83a5cf92ec-rimg-w1200-h600-dce0cfa3-gmir.jpg?v=1775453418 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Sarah Aziza launches "The Hollow Half" paperback being held? - **A:** Sarah Aziza launches "The Hollow Half" paperback takes place on Wed, 22 Apr, 2026 at 06:30 pm to Wed, 22 Apr, 2026 at 08:00 pm at Lofty Pigeon Books, Church Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USA, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Sarah Aziza launches "The Hollow Half" paperback? - **A:** Sarah Aziza launches "The Hollow Half" paperback is organized by Lofty Pigeon Books. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Sarah Aziza launches "The Hollow Half" paperback", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events6/banners/49e7f6fa76a4d83006f7d7ffb5b7ee1d3dab674820c3ee4ea289fb83a5cf92ec-rimg-w1200-h600-dce0cfa3-gmir.jpg?v=1775453418", "startDate": "2026-04-22T18:30:00-04:00", "endDate": "2026-04-22T20:00:00-04:00", "url": "https://allevents.in/brooklyn/sarah-aziza-launches-the-hollow-half-paperback/100001986438366628", "eventStatus": "https://schema.org/EventScheduled", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Lofty Pigeon Books, Church Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USA", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "743 Church Avenue", "postalCode": "11218", "addressLocality": "Brooklyn", "addressRegion": "NY", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "40.6461221", "longitude": "-73.9719605" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "“A poetic and politically potent exploration of survival.\" —Publishers Weekly", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-06", "availabilityEnds": "2026-04-22T20:00:00-04:00", "validFrom": "2026-04-06", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/brooklyn/sarah-aziza-launches-the-hollow-half-paperback/100001986438366628" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-06", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-06", "url": "https://allevents.in/brooklyn/sarah-aziza-launches-the-hollow-half-paperback/100001986438366628", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Lofty Pigeon Books", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/lofty-pigeon-books/22528523" } ] } ] ```