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A family saga set primarily in Kuwait, yes please!

I love this book! I love a family saga generally but there's always extra points when they are set in the Middle East. I love the array of nationalities which is so common here, the unique histories, the displacements, the found family. The complicated love of a country.

Don't be put off by the number of characters, the author does a fantastic job of keeping everything straight in your mind.

#BookBinge Day 15: The #CourtroomSetting in this novel about a female Kuwaiti Philosophy professor who got arrested for blasphemy was slightly anticlimactic. I appreciated the scope of this intergenerational narrative told with distinctively strong female voices that are not easily forgotten – across multiple countries: Kuwait, Lebanon, Iraq, India, the United States. My full review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-pzC

#VolumesAndVocals Day 18: An #IWillSurviveGGaynor vibe in this story of women who did all within their power to not only survive but to also thrive - despite wars, deaths, displacement, blasphemy laws.

#VolumesAndVocals Day 9: There is a #LetItBeBeatles vibe in this intergenerational epic-like novel that spans Kuwait, Iraq, India, Lebanon, Turkey among others. Quite absorbing. Glad to have known this title through the Emirates Literature Foundation Book Club. #EmiratesLitFest

#VolumesAndVocals Day 3: This #EmiratesLitFoundation book club pick this month is giving #FolsomPrisonBluesJohnnyCash vibes as the main character, a Philosophy female professor just got arrested for blasphemy in the first chapter of the book (which is where I am at, lols).

#MayMontage Day 27: A story that spans 3 generations of Arab women seems the perfect fit for #GirlPower or #WomenPower. Book club pick of the month for the Emirates Lit foundation. Better start cracking with this one. Paired with the local cheese mousse in Romania - telemea cheese from sadu, beet powder, crispy charcoal flavored cheese with caraway seeds, fresh radishes and chlorophyll oil; and kohlrabi cream soup with nettle and poached egg.

I tend to enjoy multigenerational sagas, and this one did not disappoint. Another plus, I enjoy books set in the Middle East. This beautifully written book follows the lives of three generations of Arab women. Over the years, the story takes us through the transformations not only of the women but of the country itself.