# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Book Club: The River, The Town by Farah Ali
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 09 Dec, 2025 at 06:00 pm – Tue, 09 Dec, 2025 at 07:30 pm
- **Event Description**: The River, The Town is Farah Ali’s stunning literary debut, exploring climate catastrophe, structural injustice, family, and hope.About this EventCome read Farah Ali’s stunning literary debut depicting the separation of a rural Pakistani family in the face of climate disaster, and their determination to find stability, love, and belonging at the edge of the end of their world.Description from Dzanc Books: In the rural town in Pakistan where Baadal grows up, children are named like talismans to sustain life and ward off unhappiness. At seventeen, Baadal has come to understand why his parents gave him that name, with hopes that their Big River will one day flow wide again, and their thirst will be quenched after years of drought. But in the final year of his schooling, abundance seems impossibly far away. As his parents’ marriage—full of rage, despair, and often violence—reaches a breaking point, the only comfort Baadal can afford is a budding kinship with Meena, a divorced older woman he meets on the banks of the drying river.Meena has only just escaped her abusive husband, but her resistance to remarry soon gives way to the promise of stability and companionship that Baadal offers. Together, they leave the Town in search of greater fortunes in the City. But even strong-willed, independent Meena finds herself bowed by the strain of Badaal’s punishing work schedule, her struggling beauty parlor, and the tension with Baadal’s mother, Raheela, who fights for control of her son as she seeks to leave behind a life of disappointments and discover a freedom she’s never known.Told in rotating perspectives spanning from 1966 to 1998, THE RIVER, THE TOWN is an intimate portrait of a family unraveling in the throes of indigence, and a tribute to the wounded love that keeps them tethered to each other. With stark and candid prose, Farah Ali traces one family’s fortunes to illuminate the relentless cycle of inequity, juxtaposing the tragic and grueling realities of poverty with the enduring struggle for compassion and humanity.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/chicago/book-club-the-river-the-town-by-farah-ali/100001852718253169
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art
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## Ticket Details

- **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD

## Event venue details

- **city**: Chicago
- **state**: IL
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Call & Response Books
- **lat**: 41.8025512
- **long**: -87.5919998
- **full address**: Call & Response Books, 1390 East Hyde Park Boulevard, Chicago, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Book Club: The River, The Town by Farah Ali being held?
  - **A:** Book Club: The River, The Town by Farah Ali takes place on Tue, 09 Dec, 2025 at 06:00 pm to Tue, 09 Dec, 2025 at 07:30 pm at Call & Response Books, 1390 East Hyde Park Boulevard, Chicago, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Book Club: The River, The Town by Farah Ali?
  - **A:** Book Club: The River, The Town by Farah Ali is organized by Azadi Folk School.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Book Club: The River, The Town by Farah Ali is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Chicago, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Book Club: The River, The Town by Farah Ali sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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