January Book Club

Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Time: 7 pm

Registration fee: FREE

At Kutubna’s Book Club, you can discover new books, authors, and genres, and connect with other readers at the same time.

This month’s pick is Head Above Water by Shahd Alshammari. You can purchase this book here or at our bookstore.

Head Above Water takes us into a space of intimate conversations on illness and society's stigmatization of disabled bodies. We are invited in to ask the big questions about life, loss, and the place of the other. The narrative builds a bridge that reminds us of our common humanity and weaves the threads that tie us all together. Through conversations about women's identities, bodies, and our journeys through life, we arrive at a politics of love, survival, and hope.

Shahd Alshammari is a Kuwaiti writer, academic scholar and assistant professor of the English language.