ARGONAUT BOOKS

In this collection, Mai Al-Nakib captures the lives of ordinary people in the Middle East, from a girl whose name reflects political tensions to a cancer-stricken man reflecting on his past. Through poignant stories, she explores love, marriage, and memory, revealing the quiet struggles behind the headlines of war and unrest. Reviews 'With her compassion for an old, vanished world and her exceptional eye for the bruised landscape of the modern Middle East, Al-Nakib should be heralded as an exciting new literary voice.'The National'The old world and the new. The strife in the...Read More