Foreseeing blessings and troubles in the lives of her daughter and grandchildren, Salma endures hardships stemming from the Six-Day War of 1967 in Palestine before rebuilding in Kuwait, before the family is scattered by Saddam Hussein's regime. A first novel. 50,000 first printing.
From a dazzling new literary voice, a debut novel about a Palestinian family caught between present and past, between displacement and home
