Celebrate Sarah Aziza's THE HOLLOW HALF

Debut book released April 22, 2025

Celebrate the release of The Hollow Half by Best American Essays 2025 contributor Sarah Aziza (“The Work of the Witness,” originally published in Jewish Currents).

The Hollow Half is a genre-bending, multi-generational memoir which weaves the lives of three Palestinians from Gaza, to the Midwest, to New York City, and back, probing themes of diaspora, erasure, mental health, and resilience. Alexander Chee has called the book “astonishing. . . a blazing, hard-won triumph,” while Hala Alyan writes, “Through stunning, transformative prose, Aziza writes both herself—and the reader—towards liberation." It has also been named a Most Anticipated Title and Best New Book by publications, including the San Francisco Chronicle, Literary Hub, The Millions, Electric Literature, and more.

Aziza will be on tour with her debut book at the following venues:

• 5/8 - In-person event at Asian American Writers’ Workshop with Hannah Bae & others (New York, NY), 7:00 PM ET

• 5/10 - In-person event in conversation with Fargo Nissim Tbakhi at Politics & Prose - Conn Ave (Washington, DC), 3:00PM ET

• 5/12 - In-person event at McNally Jackson Festival w/ Hala Alyan (Brooklyn, NY) 6:30PM

• 5/13 - In-person event at Stories Bookstore with Safia Elhillo, Yahya Ashour, & others (Los Angeles, CA), 7:00pm PT

• 5/17 In-person at Kearny Street Workshop with Zeina Hashem Beck, Sam Sax (San Francisco, CA)

• 5/20 In-person at Portland Literary Arts Bookstore with Omar El-Akkad (Portland, OR) Time TBD (PM)

• 5/22 - In-person event at Women & Children First with Eman Abdelhadi (Chicago, IL), 7:00pm CT

• 5/24 In-Person event at Riffraff Books with Meher Manda and Radix Media (Providence, RI) 5:00pm EST

• 5/27 In-person at The Word Is Change and the New York Arab Festival with Lara Atallah, Chase Berggrun, & others - (Brooklyn, NY) Time TBD (PM)

• 6/3 In-person at Making World Books/Asian Arts Initiative with Denice Frohman, Jess X. Snow, & others - (Philadelphia, PA) Time TBD (PM)

• 6/26 - In-person panel event moderated by CJ Hauser at Books Are Magic - Montague (Brooklyn, NY) 7:00pm ET