![]() ![]() But when teaching Nietzsche in her Intro to Philosophy course leads to an accusation of blasphemy, which carries with it the threat of execution, Sara realizes she must reconcile her feelings and her place in the world once and for all. Sara’s relationship with Kuwait is complicated it is a country she always thought she would leave, and a country she recognizes less and less, and yet a certain inertia keeps her there. ![]() Her main companions are her grandmother’s talking parrot, Bebe Mitu the family cook, Aasif and Maria, her childhood ayah and the one person who has always been there for her. ![]() In 2013, Sara is a philosophy professor at Kuwait University, having returned to Kuwait from Berkeley in the wake of her mother’s sudden death eleven years earlier. "So fresh and unsettling that it will enchant you from the first page and linger for days after reading.Its epic family saga style echoes that of Hala Alyan’s Salt Houses and The Arsonists’ City, Ayad Akhtar’s Homeland Elegies, and Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko." - Los Angeles Review of Books ![]()
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