Gryphons Read 2023: Public Talk - What Strange Paradise, Omar El Akkad
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Robert Whitelaw Room, 2nd Floor, McLaughlin Library
University of Guelph
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What Strange Paradise
Omar El Akkad
U of G’s annual common reading project – Gryphons Read – celebrates its seventh iteration. This year’s novel is What Strange Paradise, by Egyptian-Canadian author and journalist, Omar El Akkad. It is the story of two children finding their way through a hostile world. But it is also a story of empathy and indifference, of hope and despair – and about the way each of those things can blind us to reality.