The Thirty Names of Night

Zeyn Joukhadar's luminous novel braids a closeted Syrian American trans artist, a vanished painter, and a rare bird into a story of grief, transformation and finding the name that fits.

At a glance Haunted by his late mother and unable yet to speak his own name aloud, a young Syrian… What it's about Zeyn Joukhadar's novel moves between two lives. In the present, a closeted trans man in New York, grieving his mother and quietly… As he pieces together her past, and the mystery of a rare bird she once painted, his…

Zeyn Joukhadar's novel moves between two lives. In the present, a closeted trans man in New York, grieving his mother and quietly stalled in his art, stumbles on the journals of Laila Z, a Syrian American painter of…