LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE – ONE CITY ONE BOOK
NOW THROUGH OCTOBER 16, 2011
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The La Canada Flintridge One City One Book Committee is pleased to announce that Zoe Ferraris’ debut mystery novel, “Finding Nouf” was chosen as the 2011 selection. Residents of the local communities are encouraged to read Ferraris’ book and attend the author’s lecture and signing at the LCUSD Board Room on Sunday, October 16, 2011, 2:30p.m.
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“Finding Nouf” is set in contemporary Saudi Arabia in a culture far removed from our own. When sixteen-year-old Nouf disappears shortly before her wedding her prominent family hires a Palestinian desert guide, Nayir, to find her. Her body is discovered in the desert and the coroner determines Nouf died from drowning and was pregnant. When her family becomes disinterested in the case Nayir teams up with Katya, a female medical examiner, and together they seek to circumvent cultural restraints and find the truth.
Ferraris moved to Saudi Arabia in the aftermath of the first Gulf War to live with her then husband and his extended family of Saudi-Palestinian Bedouins, who had never welcomed an American into their lives before. Ferraris currently lives in San Francisco.
Copies of “Finding Nouf” will be available for purchase at the La Canada Library and local bookstores at the end of July.
Also considered for selection and recommended by the One City One Book Committee are:
City of Thieves: A Novel by David Benioff
The Happy Bottom Riding Club: The Life and Times of Pancho Barnes by Laura Kessler
Wingshooters by Nina Revoyr
The Lotus Eaters: A Novel by Tatjana Soli
For additional information contact: www.lcfonecityonebook.org
