Remembered Reads | Recent Reads: Memoirs of Exile and Homecoming, Disability 101 & a Play @RememberedReads | Uploaded October 2021 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
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Books discussed:
Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar
My Heart by Semezdin Mehmedinović, translated by Celia Hawkesworth
Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water by Kazim Ali
Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally by Emily Ladau

Books mentioned in passing:
Sarajevo Blues by Semezdin Mehmedinović, translated by Ammiel Alcalay
Nine Alexandrias by Semezdin Mehmedinović, translated by Ammiel Alcalay
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century, edited by Alice Wong
About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times, edited by Peter Catapano & Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

Event mentioned:
The Eden Mills Writer's Festival: edenmillswritersfestival.ca

Videos mentioned:
Harun Mehmedinović's TED Talk: youtube.com/watch?v=Ya-KUHvRxq8
@InsertLiteraryPunHere reviews My Heart: youtube.com/watch?v=KSTbU5MoDK8

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