Sahra Noor will discuss her memoir Salt in the Snow: A Somali Immigration Story with Bhakti Shringarpure at a Radical Books Collective book club on Sunday, November 15, at 12 p.m. New York time. The conversation will be livestreamed on Substack, YouTube, and Facebook.

We wrote about the book in September, when Narrative Landscape Press EA acquired East and West African rights to it. The memoir follows Noor from her family’s sunlit courtyard in Mogadishu to the icy streets of Minneapolis, where she arrived as a teenager. Raised in a close-knit, multigenerational Somali household, she was shaped by tradition and by her father, Noor, whose voice and values became her compass. In the United States, she built a life on her own terms and examined how his hopes and expectations both shaped and confined her, and how the love between them endured. The book is about migration, motherhood, and belonging for anyone who has lived between two cultures, two generations, or two selves.

Noor is a writer, international health and philanthropy consultant, executive coach, and leadership development expert based in Nairobi, Kenya. She is the founder and CEO of Grit Partners, a consulting firm that supports health system reform, capacity building, and leadership transformation across Africa and beyond.

The book club is free to watch online, and a reminder can be set on the Radical Books Collective page. Salt in the Snow is published by Catalyst Press, and the book is available here.