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2) Bird summons
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic edition.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Salma, Moni, and Iman-friends and active members of their local Muslim Women's group-decide to take a road trip together to the Scottish Highlands, they leave behind lives often dominated by obligation, frustrated desire, and dull predictability. Each wants something more out of life, but fears the cost of taking it. Salma is successful and happily married, but tempted to risk it all when she's contacted by her first love back in Egypt; Moni...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
1890s. When Akuany and her brother Bol are orphaned in a village raid in South Sudan, they are taken in by a young merchant Yaseen. His promise to care for them tethers him to Akuany through their adulthood. As a revolutionary leader rises to power-- the self-proclaimed Mahdi, prophesied redeemer of Islam-- Sudan begins to slip from the grasp of Ottoman rule, and everyone must choose a side. A scholar of the Qur'an, Yaseen feels beholden to stand...
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