Gulf fiction 25 ambitious and thoroughly contemporary introduction'

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Gulf fiction 25 ambitious and thoroughly contemporary introduction''INSTANTLY GRIPPING' JENNIFER EGAN The lives of five women collide in the Arabian Gulf as each looks for a way to rewrite their future. Dounia, a young Saudi finds herself alienated and alone as she prepares for motherhood in an air conditioned mansion in the middle of the desert. After losing her home and baby in a natural disaster, Flora does the unthinkable and leaves her surviving child in the Philippines to become an overseas domestic worker.