In-Conversation with Author Dalia Azim: COUNTRY OF ORIGIN

205 West 6th Street,Georgetown TX 78626

03 May, 2022

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Dalia Azim talks about her debut novel, COUNTRY OF ORIGIN Join us as we discuss COUNTRY OF ORIGIN with author Dalia Azim. "Lyrical, piercing, and powerful.”—LARA PRESCOTT, author of The Secrets We Kept "Dalia Azim’s luminous Country of Origin is a complex and moving portrait of a family reshaped by a young woman’s determination to change the course of her life. Tender and wise, this novel explores the steep costs of loyalty, betrayal, and revolution—and the tenacity of love. A transporting debut."—KIRSTIN VALDEZ QUADE, author of The Five Wounds Country of Origin is a multigenerational family saga that cuts between political revolution in 1950s Egypt and the personal revolutions of four family members whose lives intersect around the disappearance of one of their own. Seventeen-year-old Halah Ibrahim has always known a privileged life and never had cause to question it until Cairo goes up in flames. Not only does she start to doubt her father and his role in the new military-backed government—but she ultimately decides to flee to America with a young soldier she hardly knows, an impulsive act that has far-reaching consequences on both sides of the ocean. A powerful and universal debut novel about family, identity, and independence, Country of Origin is as much about a nation's coming-of-age as it is about secrets and lies, love and truth. Dalia will be available after the event to sign books. Dalia Azim was born in Canada and raised in the United States. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, American Short Fiction, Aperture, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Glimmer Train (where she received their Short Story Award for New Writers), and Other Voices, among other places. Country of Origin is her first novel. Dalia lives in Austin, Texas with her family and is the manager of special projects at the Blanton Museum of Art.