In this first of the new theme-based episodes, Assia and I explore reading books from countries we know little about!

• Discovering connections across the world.
• "A book is not holier than a tweet." © 2019 Assia
• Reading what we know is more comfortable.

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Books mentioned Amina's picks Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed Jamilia by Chingiz Aitmatov To read: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee Assia's picks Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa When We Were Arabs by Massoud Hayoun Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh Born a Crime by Trevor Noah To read: The Weight of our Sky by Hanna Alkaf Other books mentioned The Nakano Thrift Shop by Hiromi Kawakami Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata The Dead Lake by Hamid Ismailov Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee At the Cafe (Eng. trans. of Au Café) by Mohammed Dib Une Si Longue Lettre by Mariama Bâ Anumpa Warrior by Sarah Elisabeth Sawyer Share your opinions, suggestions, counter-arguments - on Instagram: @booknomadpodcast - on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/booknomadpodcast - by email: [email protected] - on the website: www.booknomadpodcast.com