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Join Anne Crystal for our Brown Bag Book Club to discuss Good People by Patmeena Sabit.
The Sharaf family fled Afghanistan and built a version of the American dream in Northern Virginia—a mansion, thriving business, and big hopes for their gifted daughter Zorah, headed for an Ivy League future. Then Zorah’s body is found in a submerged car, and whispers of an honor killing ripple through the community. Told entirely through the voices of neighbors, classmates, journalists, and police—never the family itself—this oral-history-style debut pieces together a devastating portrait of ambition, assumption, and grief.