70,000 by Lenna Jawdat Arcadia Simard brings us into her

Simard brings us into her world

and her parents decide the family will spend one last summer all together at their old lake house in the Pocono Mountains

polyphonic writer for the first time

altruism and what it takes to survive

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70,000 by Lenna Jawdat Arcadia Simard brings us into herThis title will release on July 7th, 2026 A powerful act of remembrance and resistance, 70,000 transforms cultural erasure into a living, breathing archive of grief, memory, and hope. 70,000 is a visceral and inventive poetry collection inspired by the removal of approximately 70,000 books from Palestinian homes and private libraries before and during the events of 1948. Of those books, most have not been returned; about 6,000 remain housed in Israeli